MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION OF COFFEE DRYER USING SOLAR AND BIOMASS ENERGY
Mai Thanh Phong
Phan Đình Tuấn
Abstract
Beside the clean energy sources such as wind, tide or geothermal energy, solar energy is the one which is plentiful and easy to use in many fields. Nevertheless, the storage problem, the usage and the combination of solar energy with the biomass-based one to heat the drying reagent in dryers is a new issue. The article describes thesolution to combine the solar thermal energy with the biomass-based thermal energy, to ensure a continous operation of the self-designed coffee dryer. Some test results of coffee drying have been also presented