EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF PISTACHIO DRYING BEHAVIOR IN A MIXED-MODE PV OPERATED FORCED CONVECTION SOLAR DRYER
According to FAO statistics, Iran is the largest exporter of pistachios. Kerman province -south east of Iran- has approximately 200000 hectares of pistachio orchards, which provides practically 80％ of whole country production of pistachios. After harvesting the pistachio, nuts must be washed to prevent staining. Therefore the nuts have almost 40％ moisture content and it must be decreased to storage moisture of 6％ or below. Simply decreasing in the moisture content of the products is called drying. In some areas where the environment conditions meet the minimum standard, solar drying can be an alternative approach for drying agricultural products. This work deals with the design, construction and testing a mixed-mode forced convection PV operated solar dryer.
B.Zangiabadi M.Ameri
University of Stavanger P.O.Box 4036 Stavanger, Norway Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman P.O.Box 76198 Kerman, Iran
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）