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Vol. 8 (5) : September-October 2017 issue
Green Farming Vol. 8 (5) : 1215-1218 ; September-October, 2017
Development and performance evaluation of solar-biogas integrated hybrid dryer for drying of button & oyster mushroom
PRADIP NARALE1*, SURENDRA KOTHARI2, NAFISA ALI3 and SUDHIR JAIN4
Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, College of Technology and Engineering , Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur - 313 001 (Rajasthan)
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1Research Fellow *(pdnarale@gmail.com), 2,3,4Professor
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-6704
Total Pages : 4
Received : 05 May 2017
Revised accepted : 11 September 2017
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PRADIP NARALE, SURENDRA KOTHARI, NAFISA ALI and SUDHIR JAIN. 2017. Development and performance evaluation of solar-biogas integrated hybrid dryer for drying of button & oyster mushroom. Green Farming Vol. 8 (5) : 1215-1218 ; September-October, 2017

ABSTRACT
Solar and biogas integrated hybrid dryer for drying of button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) was developed in Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, CTAE Udaipur. The white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreautus) of uniform size were thoroughly washed under tap water, sliced into 3±0.5 mm thick slices and pretreated with mixture of 0.5% citric acid and 0.5% ascorbic acid before drying. Solar energy and biogas produced from codigestion of spent button mushroom substrate and cowdung substrate were used for drying of mushroom. Drying was optimized in such a way that constant temperature of 50 °C was maintained throughout drying of mushroom. It was found that the button mushroom was dried from moisture content of 91% (w.b.) to 8.257 % (w.b.) in 11 hrs with average solar radiations availability of 560 W/m2 and biogas consumption of 700 L. The oyster mushroom was dried from moisture content of 90% (w.b.) to 8.41 % (w.b.) in 10 hrs with average solar radiations availability of 578.37 W/m2 and biogas consumption of 600 L.
Key words :
Biogas, Button mushroom, Drying, Integrated hybrid dryer, Oyster mushroom, Solar dryer.