Preservation of fruits, vegetables, and food are essential for keeping them for a long time without further deterioration in the quality of the product. Solar drying has been used since time immemorial to dry plants, seeds, fruits, meat, fish, wood, and other agricultural, forest products. The aim of the dryer is mainly for the welfare of the marginalized and poor farmers those who can’t afford hi-tech facilities and equipment’s to preserve their agricultural products. Drying of Safed Musli (Chlorophypum boribilianum) in open sun drying require more time and affected its quality. In order to maintain quality and to increase sufficient temperature in the drying chamber during winter, morning and evening hours, a solar dryer assisted with reflector was designed. The main principle of this domestic solar dryer is based on greenhouse effect where the solar heat is trapped inside the drying chamber and thus increases the temperature in addition to reflected direct radiations. A domestic dryer assisted with reflector was designed and developed for drying of safed musli in batch. | Design of solar dryer assisted with reflector for drying of medicinal crops 2017 6 2 170-184 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 2 2017 pp. 170-184 Journal homepage http Original Research Article http Design of Solar Dryer Assisted with Reflector for Drying of Medicinal Crops . Kalbande Priyanka Jadhav . Khambalkar and Sneha Deshmukh Department of Unconventional Energy Sources and Electrical Engineering Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Akola-444 104 Maharashtra State India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Preservation of fruits vegetables and food are essential for keeping them for a long time without further deterioration in the quality of the product. Solar drying has been used since time immemorial to dry plants seeds fruits meat fish wood and other agricultural forest products. The aim of the dryer is mainly for the welfare of the marginalized and poor farmers those who can t afford hi-tech facilities and equipment s to preserve their agricultural products. Drying of Safed Musli Chlorophypum boribilianum in open sun drying require more time and affected its quality. In order to maintain quality and to increase sufficient temperature in the drying chamber during winter morning and evening hours a solar dryer assisted with reflector was designed. The main principle of this Keywords domestic solar dryer is based on greenhouse effect where the solar heat is trapped inside the drying chamber and thus increases the temperature in addition to reflected direct Domestic dryer radiations. A domestic dryer assisted with reflector was designed and developed for drying Safed musali of safed musli in batch. The dryer was fabricated as per design specification and its Moisture ratio performance was evaluated in the Department of Unconventional Energy Sources and Drying rate Electrical Engineering Dr. PDKV Akola. The .
