2 publications

• Published Subscription 1 Feb 2020

  Natural Convection Agricultural Solar Dryer

  By Shankar Narayan Badiger, V.V. Katti

  Abstract: AbstractA solar air heater has been built with waste plastic bottles as a solar collector for drying agricultural crops. The lower part of each cylindrical collector (Plastic bottles of 1.2m in length and 0.07m of diameter) was black painted (30% of the surface area) and attached to greenhouse to dry the crops. The performance of the solar dryer was carried out with and without plastic bubble wrapper film on the …

  Published in Recent Trends in Fluid Mechanics · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 22–27 Read article →

• Published Subscription 1 Feb 2020

  Efficiency Improvements in Domestic LPG Burner

  By Shankar Narayan Badiger, T.R. Anil, V.V. Katt, Punit Shirahatti

  Abstract: AbstractExperiments are conducted on the domestic LPG burner with porous material as preheating and combustion medium. The burner consist of two layers of porous medium. The combustion zone is made up of silicon carbide and metal chips. The stainless-steel balls as preheating zone. The performance of the domestic LPG conventional burner is calculated in terms of heating efficiency for the different thermal inputs(Wattages) and results are compared with that of …

  Published in Recent Trends in Fluid Mechanics · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 7–11 Read article →