Investigation of Temperature and Air Flow inside Para Rubber Greenhouse Solar Dryer Incline Roof Type by Using CFD Technique

Abstract:

Para rubber solar greenhouse dryer is a one method of drying and it can be responded to requirement of agriculturist on amount of drying product. Present, the dryer was being built many type for made drying agriculture product. The air circulation and temperature scatter havent been used for the dryer built process, which are cause of fungus on product surface and product dehydrate not all over. Therefore, the objective of this research is to study temperature distributes and air circulations inside Para rubber solar greenhouse dryer of incline roof type using computational fluid dynamics method. The result showed that temperature and velocity of air were good distributing all area and havent air cluster under the roof.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 931-932)
• Pages: 1238-1242
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.931-932.1238
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Praphanpong Somsila*, Umphisak Teeboonma
• Keywords: Air Temperature, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Incline Roof Type, Para Rubber Greenhouse Solar Dryer, Velocity

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