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| Seweh, Emmanuel Amomba; Darko, Joseph Ofei; Addo, Ahmad; Asagadunga, Paul Akidiwe; Achibase, Sebastian. |
| A 14.4 × 86.0 × 70.0 cm mud evaporative cooler was designed and constructed for the storage of sweet potato roots to evaluate its performance in storing orange fleshed sweet potato variety (Apomuden) roots. The investigation lasted for 14 weeks, from November 2014 to February, 2015. The dry bulb (Tdb) and wet bulb temperatures (Twb) for the ambient storage ranged between 27.600C to 26.900C and 22.500C to 20.100C respectively with their corresponding RH of 64.00%, 77.00% respectively, while Tdb and Twb within the cooler ranged between 25.940C to 24.860C and 21.940C to 20.610C with corresponding R.H of 89.00% to 92.00% respectively. The efficiency of the constructed evaporative cooler was 87.17%. From an initial weight of 2000 g, roots weight decreased to... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Engineering; Post-harvest Technology evaporative cooler; Storage weight loss; Wet bulb temperature; Dry bulb temperature; Moisture content; Energy content. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3716 |
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