A Granite Bed Storage for a Small Solar Dryer
Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
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Materials 2018, 11(10), 1969; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11101969
Received: 8 September 2018
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Revised: 9 October 2018
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Accepted: 11 October 2018
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Published: 13 October 2018
(This article belongs to the Section Energy Materials)
The article presents the concept of a high-temperature solar dryer with an internal bed storage. Granite was selected as the material for filling the bed storage, and an emphasis was put on its versatile use and favourable thermal and mechanical properties. Experimental tests were carried out for the charging process of the bed storage, which was filled with granite spheres with three different diameters. The influence of the sphere’s diameter on the charging and discharging process of the bed storage was analysed. The results of the experiment allowed a conclusion to be drawn that the use of a granite storage bed could prolong the operation of the considered dryer by two hours.
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Keywords:
granite spheres; heat storage; solar dryer
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Nemś, M.; Nemś, A.; Pacyga, P. A Granite Bed Storage for a Small Solar Dryer. Materials 2018, 11, 1969. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11101969
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Nemś M, Nemś A, Pacyga P. A Granite Bed Storage for a Small Solar Dryer. Materials. 2018; 11(10):1969. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11101969
Chicago/Turabian StyleNemś, Magdalena, Artur Nemś, and Paweł Pacyga. 2018. "A Granite Bed Storage for a Small Solar Dryer" Materials 11, no. 10: 1969. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11101969
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