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  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 →