Cfd Analysis Of Air Flow Profile Within A Ghe Solar Dryer

Abstract

In our previous study several experimental runs were conducted using a laboratory scale Green House Effect (GHE) Solar Dyer to test CFD software for the purpose of improving the performance offield size solar dryer. Three modes of component re-arrangements of air inlet, heat exchanger, fans and outlet were selected using cloves as the drying load of afield size solar dryer. Using the Fluent. version 6.1. soft ware it was capable to determine the optimum re-arrangements of the field size solar dryer components so that better distribution air flow, RH and temperature distribution within the chamber could be created