Caracterización térmica y de desempeño de un secador hibrido solar -biomasa de sección transversal circular a través de experimentación y simulación numérica

Abstract

At the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Saint Thomas Sectional Tunja University, the project entitled: "Design and Construction of a Solar-Biomass hybrid dryer for apples in the municipality of Nuevo Colón Boyacá" was built, where a solarhybrid prototype was built. circular section biomass, based on a research process focused on the apple (Hernández Moreno, Torres Díaz & Rúa Ramírez, 2019), this research project serves as a starting point for the development of this proposal. This proposal aims to determine the thermal performance of a prototype of a hybrid dryer, located in the laboratory of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the USTA Tunja, the project will have two stages: A first experimental stage that consists of instrumenting the dryer with a system integrated sensors for the acquisition of temperature and humidity data, a meteorological station will also be installed to collect climatic data and later physical experimentation will be carried out in order to define the thermal properties and efficiency of the dryer working in real conditions. After this comes a second stage that consists of developing a numerical model to later be validated with the data obtained in the first stage and thus achieve a tool that allows predicting the thermal behavior of the equipment and its efficiency under different climatic conditions. For the simulation stage, it will be taken into account that the numerical models are solved using computational tools that use numerical methods for their resolution. In this way it is intended to evaluate the thermal performance of the dryer, and to be able to offer an alternative that allows evaluating its behavior under different environmental conditions.