• ASIF BASHA A
• NATARAJ M
• KANNAN RAMASAMY

Cabinet dryers are the most popular drying devices for fruit drying. One of the drawbacks of this dryer can be non- uniformity in the desired end product moisture content. To overcome this problem, a new version of a cabinet dryer with the vertical divergent and convergent chamber is designed for the research. In Cabinet tray dryers, trays are used (product holders) to expose the product to the heated air in an enclosed space called cabinet. Heating may be an air current sweeping across the trays, by conduction from heated trays on which the trays lie, or by radiation from heated surfaces with air currents to sweep moisture. Most tray dryers are heated by air, which also removes the moist vapors from the product. In tray dryers, the materials are spread out quite thin shaped on trays in which the drying takes place. Air movement over the food products surface is at relatively high velocities to ensure that convective heat and mass transfer proceeds in an efficient manner. The design of cabinet drying chamber is similar to the solar-type dryer but in this case, the heat is supplied by electricity. The three-dimensional geometry of the cabinet dryer with two food product holding trays was studied theoretically using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique. The most appropriate geometrical sketch with acceptable uniform air flow rate and temperature distribution in the cabinet dryer was selected and fabricated. The main use of CFD analysis is to predict the temperature and velocity distribution in each tray and to make use of the CFD analysis results to do the experiment in an efficient manner and reduce the time and energy consumption for obtaining the end result.

CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics

"CFD ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE AND VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION IN FORCED CONVECTIVE CABINET DRYER UNIT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.487-494, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905F73.pdf

"CFD ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE AND VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION IN FORCED CONVECTIVE CABINET DRYER UNIT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp487-494, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905F73.pdf