Conference Paper
An Experimental Study and Analysis on Solar Drying of Bitter Gourd Using an Evacuated Tube Air Collector in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Table 1
Hourly variation of solar insolation, wind velocity, and temperature for bitter gourd (average of 3 days).
| Time | Solar insolation W/m2 | Wind velocity m/s | RH % | Temperature (°C) | Amb. | ETC in | ETC out | Tray 1 | Tray 2 | Tray 3 | Chim. | | | | | | | |
| 9.00 | 460 | 0.63 | 56 | 33 | 45 | 109 | 49 | 49 | 50 | 47 | 10.00 | 663 | 0.72 | 56 | 32.7 | 50 | 114 | 70 | 66 | 58 | 59 | 11.00 | 865 | 1.14 | 50.7 | 34 | 52 | 119 | 77 | 70 | 64 | 63 | 12.00 | 1126 | 1.23 | 43.5 | 36.2 | 52 | 127 | 83 | 77 | 69 | 68 | 13.00 | 1085 | 2.85 | 34.7 | 36.2 | 53 | 131 | 86 | 80 | 72 | 72 | 14.00 | 893 | 1.38 | 35.5 | 37 | 52 | 122 | 83 | 77 | 71 | 70 | 15.00 | 713 | 1.8 | 40 | 35.5 | 51 | 108 | 77 | 73 | 67 | 66 | 16.00 | 396 | 1.9 | 44.7 | 33.5 | 47 | 95 | 74 | 68 | 63 | 62 | 17.00 | 234 | 1.61 | 50.2 | 33.2 | 44 | 75 | 66 | 60 | 55 | 54 |
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