火用
太阳能干燥器
可用能
相变材料
气流
数学
热的
太阳能
环境科学
材料科学
环境工程
制浆造纸工业
热力学
工艺工程
工程类
物理
电气工程
作者
Mohammad Saleh Barghi Jahromi,Masoud Iranmanesh,Hadi Samimi Akhijahani
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.est.2022.104688
摘要
In the present work, the experimental studies performed through the thermo-economical analysis of Jerusalem artichoke slices dried by an indirect cabinet solar dryer with evacuated tube collectors and phase change materials. It shows that in the drying process of 5 mm thickness of Jerusalem artichoke slices the effect of using phase change materials in the solar dryer on the movement of the water content from the crops was significant (P < 0.05). The drying time decreased with increasing the airflow rate, but it was not significant (P > 0.05). Using phase change materials increased activation energy (33.4 kJ/mol) and improved the overall drying efficiency 1.51–7.81%. Specific energy consumption with PCM usage decreases from 14.51 to 13.38 MJ/kg. In addition the exergy efficiency for the drying process about 35.3–59.7%. The optimized condition for the system was obtained, and it showed that payback time for the solar dryer with optimized condition could be decreased to 22 months which was lower than basic condition (15%). Moreover, artificial neural network, computational fluid dynamic and evolutionary polynomial regression were considered to predict the variations of thermal behavior of the system. The values of RMSE and COV for artificial neural network method are lower and R2 is higher than the computational fluid dynamic method. The result of evolutionary polynomial regression implied that it predicted outlet temperature, and the collector thermal efficiency with the acceptable accuracy (R2 > 0.98). According to the exergetic, economic and quality consideration the proper condition was obtained with 0.9 kg/s for air flow rate assisted with PCM.
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