Technologies

Rural Technologies

Title:	Hybrid Solar Food Dryer to Dry Agriculture Produce
Area:	Rural Technologies
Focus Area:	Agriculture Processing
Developing Agency:	Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
Email:	sbkedare@iitb.ac.in, manaswita.bose@iitb.ac.in
Principal Investigator:	Prof. Shireesh Kedare, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Maharashtra Prof. Manaswita Bose, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Maharashtra
Associated NGO:	BAIF Development Research Foundation, Maharashtra
Implementing Agency Link:	https://www.iitb.ac.in/

Brief Description

Description :

This project addresses the issue of drying agricultural produce in a fast and energy efficient way while keeping the cost as low as possible. The main focus of this project is achieving continuous drying of the agricultural products. (This was found to be shortcoming of most of the existing solar dryer designs). Continuous drying is achieved by using PCM (Phase change Material). Successful studies have been conducted on drying tomatoes, raw mango and some vegetables like Karela, Bhindi etc.