Development and Evaluation of an All Weather-Type Solar Drying House to Make for Wood Pellet Material

Kimio  Kanayama; Shinya  Koga; Hiromu  Baba; Tomoyoshi  Sugawara

doi:10.4236/ojapps.2012.23022

Kimio Kanayama, Shinya Koga, Hiromu Baba, Tomoyoshi Sugawara

Abstract: To suppress the global environment pollutions, we tried to develop a new-type solar drying house by improving a typical agricultural green-house, so that an all weather-type solar drying house was invented ultimately. This house is capable to dry raw wood materials (Ogako) into suitable moisture content (Mc) to make a wood pellet. The all weather-type solar Ogako drying house is covered with a triple transparent film, and an open/close free-type shield sheet is spread along with house’s inner surface with a small space, which is opened when solar radiation is incident on the house in daytime and closed to prevent heat loss from the house while out of sun shining in night. Inside of the all weather-type solar Ogako drying house, there are four belt-conveyors over which four top radiation panels are hanged, and on which four Ogako agitators are touched, a turn-table, two hoppers, four small fans, and besides, a floor heating is molded in concrete floor. Also on the north wall outside the house, two insulated cylinders (chimney) are stood up vertically to exhaust inside moist air passively. Then, to make clearly the operation performance of the house, the drying tests for the proof examination were conducted nineteen times at first test site in Ashoro where is located east-central part of Hokkaido, Japan. As a result of the drying test for the proof examination, it was made clear that the all weather-type solar Ogako drying house is practically useful as a supplementary apparatus to produce the dried Ogako, and consequently to suppress CO2 exhaustion.

Keywords: Solar Energy and Biomass Energy; Agricultural Green-House; Ogako Drying House; Wood Powder (Ogako); Wood Pellet; Moisture Content (Mc); Decrease of Oil Consumption; Suppression of CO2 Exhaustion

Cite this paper: nullK. Kanayama, S. Koga, H. Baba and T. Sugawara, "Development and Evaluation of an All Weather-Type Solar Drying House to Make for Wood Pellet Material," Open Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 3, 2012, pp. 153-162. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2012.23022.

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