Experimental testing of a solar assisted tabacco curing system in Chiang Mai | |
| Author | Sompong Pichetpinyo |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. ET-84-3 |
| Subject(s) | Tobacco curing Solar heating |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Environment, Resources & Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | A solar air heater and a rock bed heat store were designed, installed and tested on an existing tobacco curing barn of size 6m x 6m x 8.5m. The air heater was a flat plate solar collector of area 36 M2 and the rock bed heat store had a volume of 12.5 M3. The energy efficiency, energy balance and economics of the conventional flue-cured system and the solar system were determined and compared on the same barn. The energy efficiency of the conventional flue-cured system was very low while that of the solar system was higher. The solar system helped save about 30-40 percent of the fuel wood used in the conventional system and the quality of the tobacco cured leaf was improved. |
| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Energy Technology (ET) |
| Chairperson(s) | Exell, Robert H.B. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Bhattacharya, Sribas C. ; Sauter-Servaes, Florian |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | The Canadian International Development Agency Board Based Development Program (CIDA-BBD) |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1984 |