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Air-flow Distribution Study and Performance Analysis of a Natural Convection Solar Dryer
Nicholas Musembi Maundu, Kosgei Sam Kiptoo, Kiprop Eliud, Dickson Kindole, Yuichi Nakajo
American Journal of Energy Research
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2017
, 5(1), 12-22 doi:10.12691/ajer-5-1-2
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Existing solar dryer design
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Modified Design solar dryer for PIV study
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Experimental Set-Up
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Velocity across the chamber
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Profile of line velocity(UV) across mid-section
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Turbulent Kinetic Energy (TKE)
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Correlation coefficient (region between the lower tray and upper tray)
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Graph of Correlation Coefficient across the drying chamber
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Graph of Turbulent Kinetic Energy across the section (between tray 2 and 3)
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Graph of standard deviation of velocity within frames across the section
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Thermal image showing temperature variations across 4 different sections
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A graph of Irradiance (W/m
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A graph of Temperature and Relative humidity against time of drying
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A graph of Humidity Ratio(HR) against time of drying
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Appendix
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