1985 Volume 46 Issue 4 Pages 479-487
To put a rice drying with solar energy to practical use, in this report, the mathematical model of the rice drying and the solar drying simulations have been discussed.
Firstly, a solar drying model was developed and the validity of the model was verified by indoor experiments, then the model was applied to solar drying field tests with a simplified air collector and a vinylhouse.
Secondly, a mathematical model of the solar rice drying with the collector was conducted by conjunction between this mathematical drier and the collector. Using this, use the solar drying simulation could be conducted under optional geography, weather, collector, and drying condition.
Then, an suitble solar collection area can be estimated in accordance with a quantity of rice to be dried. The simulations under the general datas were condcted, an a practical prediction formula of the mean drying rate was proposed.
