[Stoves] Dehydrator

[Michael N Trevor]

I have long been interested in the idea if TLUD/retort for copra. and also
used for fruit fish or breadfruit flour.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 4:16 PM Anderson, Paul <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> 1 kg / hr would be about the size of a regular Champion-style TLUD stove.
>  (I used the front side of the envelope.  Very approximate, but a good
> suggestion to start.)
>
> Paul
>
> Doc / Dr TLUD / Paul S. Anderson, PhD
> Exec. Dir. of Juntos Energy Solutions NFP
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stoves <stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org> On Behalf Of
> Andrew
> > Heggie
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 2:54 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [Stoves] Dehydrator
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 at 19:13, Anderson, Paul <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > It would be nice to know how much heat energy is actually needed, but
> the
> > real issue is to have one and put a very small diameter TLUD to give the
> heat.
> > (maybe 4 cm = 1.5 inches).
> >
> >
> > We can have a  stab at that with a back of the envelope calculation, the
> article
> > says it dries 10kg of mangoes in 2 hours.
> >
> > I'll assume mangoes are about 70% water and will need drying to 17%mc
> wwb,
> > So it will need to remove 6.38 litres of water in 2 hours.
> > Assuming again a 50% effi8ciency then  that needs about 31MJ of heat, so
> > about 1kg/hour of fairly dry biomass.
> >
> > Crispin has previously posted on low temperature drying/smoking of fish.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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