TY - JOUR
TI - Drying of mint leaves in forced convection solar dryer
AU - Suresh Munusamy
AU - Palanisamy Ponnusamy
AU - Kumar Kandasamy Senthil
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2019
VL - 23
IS - 6
SP - 3941
EP - 3949
PT - Article
AB - In this present work, performance study on drying mint leaves under the  metrological conditions. Intensity of radiation falls on the absorber plate  which transfers heat to forced air flow inside the GI tube. Drying experiment  carried out with 1kg of mint leaves taken for drying process under the  different mass flow rate of 0.75 m/s and 1.25m/s in serpentine flow of air.  Performance of the collector and drying efficiency were 30.33 % and 1.63% in  first day at 0.75 m/s mass flow rate and in the second day collector, the  drying efficiency were 29.41% and 1.89 % at the mass flow rate of 1.25m/s.  The mass flow rate of air decreased with increasing collector and drying  efficiency.