Vol. 6 (4) : July-August 2015 issue
Green Farming Vol. 6 (4) : 880-882 ; July-August, 2015
Economic evaluation of biomass-based forced convection drying system for ginger drying
AJINKYA DIPAK DESHPANDE1* and N.S. RATHORE2
Deptt. of Renew. Energy Engg., College of Techn. & Agric. Engg., M.P. University of Agric. & Techn., Udaipur - 313 001 (Raj.)
Designation : 1M. Tech Scholar *(ajikyaagroneer@gmail.com), 2Professor
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-2519
Total Pages : 3
Received : 21 August 2014
Revised accepted : 19 March 2015
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Citation :
AJINKYA DIPAK DESHPANDE and N.S. RATHORE. 2015. Economic evaluation of biomass-based forced convection drying system for ginger drying. Green Farming Vol. 6 (4) : 880-882 ; July-August, 2015
ABSTRACT
A biomass based forced convective drying system was designed at College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur and installed in a small food processing unit at village Vana, Panchayat Samiti Bhinder, Udaipur. The developed dryer had drying capacity of 500 kg of fresh ginger slices per batch. The developed system was evaluated for techno-economic feasibility with three economic indicators i.e. NPW, B/C ratio and pay-back period. During no load testing maximum temperature achieved in the system was 63.8oC. The full load performance of the system was evaluated with 500 kg of ginger slices per batch. The ginger slices were dried from moisture content of 78.37% (w.b.) to 10.09% (w.b.) in 10 hrs. The capital investment of biomass based forced convective drying system was `1, 83, 539.2/-. The full load performance was conducted from 9:00 to 19:00 h in winter season and the hourly data was recorded. The NPW, B/C ratio and pay-back period of developed system was found to be `16, 89,855.00, 1.02 and 0.62 years respectively.
Key words :
B:C ratio, Biomass, Economic, Ginger drying, Net present worth (NPW), Pay-back period.
