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IJMLC 2013 Vol.3(5): 419-423 ISSN: 2010-3700
DOI: 10.7763/IJMLC.2013.V3.352

The Prediction of Drying Uniformity in Tray Dryer System using CFD Simulation

Suhaimi Misha, Sohif Mat, Mohd Hafidz Ruslan, Kamaruzzaman Sopian, and Elias Salleh

Abstract—Tray dryer is the most extensively used because of its simple and economic design. In a tray dryer, more products can be loaded as the trays are arranged at different levels. The product is spread out on trays at an acceptable thickness. The drawback of this dryer is non-uniformity in the desired moisture content of end product due to poor air flow distribution in the drying chamber. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used extensively because of its capability to solve equations for the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy using numerical methods to predict the temperature, velocity, and pressure profiles. This research is to predict drying uniformity of new design of the commercial tray dryer for agricultural product. The temperature and velocity profile, streamline and velocity on each tray were analyzed to study the uniformity of the drying. The 3D simulation is done to represent the actual model. Generally the temperatures are considered uniform for all trays. However the average air velocity at several trays which is at tray number 1, 7, 8 and 15 are much higher than others tray. The rest of the trays are look more uniform. The average air velocity above the tray is about 0.38 m/s.

Index Terms—Drying simulation, tray dryer, uniform drying.

Suhaimi Misha is with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UniversitiTeknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka (e-mail: suhaimimisha@ utem.edu.my). Sohif Mat, Mohd Hafidz Ruslan, Kamaruzzaman Sopian, and Elias Salleh are with the Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia (e-mail:drsohif@gmail.com, hafidz@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my, ksopian@eng.ukm.my, elsall06@gmail.com).

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Cite:Suhaimi Misha, Sohif Mat, Mohd Hafidz Ruslan, Kamaruzzaman Sopian, and Elias Salleh, "The Prediction of Drying Uniformity in Tray Dryer System using CFD Simulation," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol.3, no. 5, pp. 419-423, 2013.

General Information

  • E-ISSN: 2972-368X
  • Abbreviated Title: Int. J. Mach. Learn.
  • Frequency: Quaterly
  • DOI: 10.18178/IJML
  • Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Lin Huang
  • Executive Editor:  Ms. Cherry L. Chen
  • Abstracing/Indexing: Inspec (IET), Google Scholar, Crossref, ProQuest, Electronic Journals LibraryCNKI.
  • E-mail: ijml@ejournal.net


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