Abstract
ABSTRACT Drying of agricultural produce like paddy grains is necessary for reducing moisture content in them to the required level towards diminishing the deterioration and enhancing the storage time. Conventionally, open-space sun drying is widely used to reduce the moisture content of the most of the agricultural produce.. Now-a-day, so many solar dryers are used for drying agricultural produce. In the present work, a double-pass oscillating bed with a double-pass flat plate collector has been used for drying of non-parboiled paddy grains. The bed oscillated at a frequency of 2.75 Hz. The oscillating bed solar dryer can dry 45 kg of non-parboiled paddy grains in just a single day to the required level of moisture content, and the average moisture present in the dried grains was 13.55%. The average dryer thermal efficiency and pick-up efficiency in non-parboiled paddy were 28.79% and 52.17%, respectively.
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