On Rice Drying with Solar Energy

Drying Experiments with Solar-collector and Vinyl-house

Abstract

Experiments on a practical scale have been conducted to collect data for utilizing abundant and clean solar energy in order to save energy in rice drying.
A solar collector and a vinyl-house were used to collect solar energy in rice drying and the performances of both methods were compared.
In order for practical application of these methods, studied were such relationships between dying rate and quantity of solar radiation, and between daily average collector efficiency and both air flow rate and quantity of solar radiation as well as the method of estimating collector area and the efficiency of vinyl-house.