MVPS’s KBT College of Engineering

Department: Mechanical Engineering

A Project Stage - I, Review- I Presentation on

“Design And Development Of Greenhouse Based Solar Dryer”
By
Mr. Taskar Jaydatt Chandrakant
Mr. Mhaskar Shubham Somnath
Mr. Watpade Akshay Balkrishna
Mr. Rayate Pranav Shivaji

Under the Guidance of

(Dr.S.B.Sonawane)
[A.Y. : 2022-23]
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 Presentation
ContentsOutlines

1 Introduction

2 Problem statement

3 Objectives of work

4 Proposed solution

5 Design

6 Project planning/Activity schedule

7 References 2
 Introduction
1) India is an agricultural country. Post-harvest losses and storage loss is to be addressed at a
topmost priority. Food preservation techniques and drying techniques have been evolved out over
the past years.

2) Mass production of crops and climatic change affects the cost and value in the market. Problems
like this making India’s agricultural sector falling back leading to the dissatisfaction among the
fellow farmers. To avoid this problems preservation and drying techniques are used to help the
farmers who are having farms in marginal level (0.5 - 1 hectare area).

3) Our main focus is on drying techniques based on solar energy. Techniques like solar dryer,
Conventional electric dryer, hybrid solar dryer and common open sun drying. This drying technique
adds the value to the agricultural products when there is no satisfying value to the product in the
market. After the complete processing of a product the value is added and thus farmer can sell the
processed product with satisfying value

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Responds to the following needs
•Food security and preservation
•Clean energy
Suitable for
•Small-scale farmers and food producers
•Subsistence agriculture

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 Problem Statement

❖ Design, development and performance evaluation of

greenhouse based solar dryer to cater the need of agro
processing industry for development of value added
agriculture products.

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 Objectives of work

The major objectives of the drying process are as follows:

1) To design and develop greenhouse based solar dryer for drying of grapes.

2) To evaluate performance of greenhouse based solar dryer for determination of

drying efficiency.

3) To assess techno-commercial viability for solar dryer in real application.

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Scope Of Work
1) Design of solar dryer for summer condition and winter condition.

2) Calculation for heat gain and heat losses.

3) Design and Drafting of layout of greenhouse based solar dryer.

4) Design of vibratory-reciprocating system.

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 DESIGN OF GREENHOUSE
BASED SOLAR DRYER
❑The idea of a greenhouse dryer is to employ Greenhouse and Greenhouse effect for increase
the temperature inside solar dryer.
❑The roof and wall of the solar dryer can be made of transparent material such as glass, fiber
glass, UV stabilized plastic or polycarbonate sheets.
❑The transparent materials are fixed on a PVC pipes with a Elbow & Tea and rubber packing
to prevent humid air or rainwater leaking into the chamber other than those introduced from
the inlet opening. To enhance solar radiation absorption black surface should be provided
within the structure.
❑ Inlet and exhaust fans are placed at proper position within the structure to ensure even
distribution of the drying air.
❑Designed properly, greenhouse dryers allow a greater degree of control over the drying
process than the cabinet dryers and they are more appropriate for large scale drying

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Fig 1. Schematic Diagram Of The Solar Dryer.

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Fig 2. The Specification Of The Dryer.

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Project Planning
1. We Completed the Greenhouse Based Solar Dryer Design.
2. We Completed the which Material have need to the project.
3. list of the Material need to the project.
◦ Polycarbonate Sheet, PVC Pipes, Elbow And Tea, Rubber Packing
◦ Inlet And Exhaust Fans

4. Confirmation of the material costing

5. Finding the Material Market As well As online shop
6. To check the selection criteria of solar dryer

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 Remaining Work:

❖Creating a Model
❖ Some Calculation Needed to on the basis of two season mainly
summer and winter
❖Some Analysis of the model Needed
1.Steady-State Thermal Analysis
To find out the temperature distribution across the cross section of solar dryer
wall we perform a sampling analysis due to software and time constraints.
2. Ansys fluent analysis
To find the heat gain through radiation in a solar dryer cabinet, we performed
analysis in ansys fluent.

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Case Study
•Piloting climate change adaptation in food production and food
security on low-lying atolls of Solomon Islands
•Solar dryers for income generation in India pdf.

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 References
a) Ilhem Hamdi et al. Experimental study and numerical modeling for drying grapes under
solar greenhouse. Renewable Energy 127 (2018) 936-946, 2018, Elsevier Ltd.,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.05.027
b) Prashant Singh Chauhan et al. Heat transfer analysis of PV integrated modified
greenhouse dryer, Renewable Energy 121 (2018) 53-65, 2018, Elsevier Ltd.,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.01.017
c) Ouassila Badaoui et al. Experimental and modeling study of tomato pomace waste
drying in a new solar greenhouse: Evaluation of new drying models, Renewable Energy
133 (2019) 144-155, 2018, Elsevier Ltd., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.10.020
d) Abhay Lingayat, et al. Design, Development and Performance of Indirect Type Solar
Dryer for Banana Drying, Energy Procedia 109 Pg no. 409-416, 2017, Elsevier Ltd.,
http://doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017. 03.041
e) P. K. Nag, Heat and Mass Transfer, Third Edition, published by Tata McGraw Hill
Education India, Pvt, Ltd.
f) V. B. Bhandari, Design of Machine Elements, Third Edition, published by Tata McGraw
Hills Companies

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