Design and development of hybrid solar dryer for flowers

A hybrid solar dryer was developed consisting of three shelves of 0.55 m2 area each in the drying chamber. This dryer works on the principal of solar thermal and solar photovoltaic system. The performance evaluation was done with rose and marigold flowers. It was found that both flowers when dried a...

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Published in:The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Main Authors: PADMAPANI PACHPINDE, P K SHARMA, INDRA MANI, ROUF A PARRAY, NAMITA NAMITA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Council of Agricultural Research 2019-11-01
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Online Access:https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/95307