Development of a Household Scale Solar Dryer: Performance Evaluation and ARX Modeling
Keywords:
Household Scale Solar Dryer, Drying of Banana, ARX Modeling, Experimental PerformanceAbstract
This paper compared the results of an actual experimental study and an ARX modeling study on the performance of a household scale solar dryer. This is a low-loading capacity dryer for drying bananas for household consumption and not for commercial production. The ARX model is simple but is more complete than a normal auto-regressive models because it can be based not only the previous time-series data, but also on exogenous variables. The ARX model prediction of the moisture content of the bananas compared with the experimentally measured values was good. Hence this model can be applied in predicting operational performances and in designing the controllers for drying processes.
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