Study of drying characteristics of large-cardamom
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Study of drying characteristics of large-cardamom
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Creator |
RAO, VGOVARDHANA
MANDE, SANJAY KISHORE, VVN |
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large cardamom
energy efficiency performance evaluation |
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Description |
India is the largest producer of large-cardamom in the world with 54% share in world production followed by Nepal (33%) and Bhutan (13%). For long-duration storage of cardamom and in order to bring out its aroma, the fresh cardamom capsules (with 80–85% moisture) has to be dried immediately after harvesting to bring down its moisture content to less than 10% (w.b.) through a curing (drying) process. Still a primitive and inefficient (operating efficiency level of about 5–15%) smoking method (using traditional bhatti) is being used for drying of large-cardamom resulting in huge (estimated 20,000 MT/yr) wastage of fuel wood and poor (charred and blackened) quality product. This paper gives a brief description of efforts made to obtain basic drying parameters of large-cardamom (which is a pre-requisite for dryer design) under different operating conditions.
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Elsevier
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Date |
2009-03-16T06:35:49Z
2011-11-25T19:05:14Z 2011-12-26T13:07:06Z 2011-12-27T05:55:08Z 2009-03-16T06:35:49Z 2011-11-25T19:05:14Z 2011-12-26T13:07:06Z 2011-12-27T05:55:08Z 2001 |
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Article
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Biomass and Bioenergy 20(1), 37-43
0961-9534 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0961-9534(00)00047-7 http://hdl.handle.net/10054/933 http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/933 |
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en
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