Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 214 views

    Exp. 1 Drying Solid Material Using Tray Dryer Unit

    Uploaded by

    Elaine Pui
    This document describes an experiment to determine the effect of heating level on drying rate using a tray dryer. The experiment involves drying rice at different heating levels of a tray dryer and measuring the mass loss over time. Air temperature, humidity and mass are recorded regularly during drying. The results will be used to calculate the energy required for drying and compare between heating levels. Psychrometric charts will be used to determine air properties like enthalpy from temperature and humidity readings.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Exp. 1 Drying Solid Material Using Tray Dryer Unit

    Uploaded by

    Elaine Pui
    214 views5 pages
    This document describes an experiment to determine the effect of heating level on drying rate using a tray dryer. The experiment involves drying rice at different heating levels of a tray dryer and measuring the mass loss over time. Air temperature, humidity and mass are recorded regularly during drying. The results will be used to calculate the energy required for drying and compare between heating levels. Psychrometric charts will be used to determine air properties like enthalpy from temperature and humidity readings.

    Original Description:

    tray drying

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document describes an experiment to determine the effect of heating level on drying rate using a tray dryer. The experiment involves drying rice at different heating levels of a tray dryer and measuring the mass loss over time. Air temperature, humidity and mass are recorded regularly during drying. The results will be used to calculate the energy required for drying and compare between heating levels. Psychrometric charts will be used to determine air properties like enthalpy from temperature and humidity readings.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    214 views5 pages

    Exp. 1 Drying Solid Material Using Tray Dryer Unit

    Uploaded by

    Elaine Pui
    This document describes an experiment to determine the effect of heating level on drying rate using a tray dryer. The experiment involves drying rice at different heating levels of a tray dryer and measuring the mass loss over time. Air temperature, humidity and mass are recorded regularly during drying. The results will be used to calculate the energy required for drying and compare between heating levels. Psychrometric charts will be used to determine air properties like enthalpy from temperature and humidity readings.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 5

    Mass & Heat Transfer Lab

    BKF3721

    Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering

    Experiment 1
    DRYING OF SOLID MATERIALS USING TRAY DRYER

    Name
    Matric No.
    Group
    Program
    Section
    Date

    Semester II - Session 2013/2014

    Mass & Heat Transfer Lab

    BKF3721

    EXPERIMENT 1: DRYING SOLID MATERIALS USING TRAY DRYER


    OBJECTIVE
    1. To determine effect of heating level on the drying rate.
    2. To calculate water loss through the relationship of relative humidity and enthalpy.

    INTRODUCTION
    Drying is usually the final step in a series of operations, and the product from a dryer is often ready
    for final packaging. Water or other liquids may be removed from solids mechanically by presses or
    centrifuges or thermally by vaporization. Drying can be defined by reducing the moisture content from an
    initial value to some acceptable final value. Most industrial dryers handle particulate solid during part of or
    all the drying cycle, although some, of course, dry large individual pieces such as ceramic ware or sheet of
    polymer. The solid to be dried may be in many different forms, such as flakes, granules, crystals, powders,
    slab or continuous sheets, and may have widely differing properties. The liquid to be vaporized may be on
    the surface of the solid, as in drying salt crystal; it may be entirely inside the solid, as in solvent removal
    from a sheet of polymer; or it may be partly outside and partly inside.

    EQUIPMENT/APPARATUS/MATERIAL

    1. Tray Dryer Unit


    2. Rice
    3. Air velocity measurement device / anemometer
    4. Analytical Balance

    Mass & Heat Transfer Lab

    BKF3721

    EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES

    1. Switch on power supply at electrical header, equipment panel & balance.


    2. Remove drying plate from support frame.
    3. Tare scale to zero.
    4. Insert drying plate into support frame, and record the weight of the drying plate .
    5. Spread the material (rice) to be dried on the drying plate.
    6. Insert the drying plate into the support frame and record the overall weight.
    7. Switch on the fan and set the controller speed.
    8. Measure the airflow speed with manual anemometer.
    9. Set the heating level to 2 (1000 Watt) and switch on the heater.
    10. Start drying experiment, commence time measurement using stopwatch. Collect the data for 5 minutes
    intervals and drying experiment is complete when either (whichever come first):

    The total mass of material become constant

    The collected data are constant

    11. Repeat step 2 to 10 for next heating level (1 (500 Watt) - 6 (3000 Watt)).
    12. Shutdown the equipment and clean the drying plate.
    13. While performing the experiment, the following measured data is recorded at regular intervals and
    entered in the working sheet.

    Air temperature, T1 before material to be dried

    Relative air humidity, F1 before material to be dried

    Air temperature, T2 after material to be dried

    Relative air humidity, F2 after material to be dried

    Total mass, m of material to be dried and drying plates

    Use the attached Mollier diagram to determine the loading X for the relevant air states

    DISCUSSION

    Discuss all your results. The question below only serves as a guideline. Your discussion should not
    only limit to these questions.
    1)

    Determine the energy required for the drying purposes and compare the value for both
    heating level.

    Mass & Heat Transfer Lab

    BKF3721

    RESULTS
    Table Experimental Data 1
    Initial Mass (drying plate + rice) :
    Heating Level

    Air Speed

    Time,t

    Air Temp., T1

    Air Humidity, F1

    Air Temp., T2

    Air Humidity, F1

    Mass, m

    (min)

    (unit)

    (unit)

    (unit)

    (unit)

    (g)

    Table Experimental Data 2


    Initial Mass (drying plate + rice) :
    Heating Level

    Air Speed

    Time,t

    Air Temp., T1

    Air Humidity, F1

    Air Temp., T2

    Air Humidity, F1

    Mass, m

    (min)

    (unit)

    (unit)

    (unit)

    (unit)

    (g)

    Mass & Heat Transfer Lab

    BKF3721

    Psychrometric Chart and Air Characteristics

    Figure 1: Psychrometric Chart

    You might also like