| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 31, 2018
The 2nd International Conference on Energy, Environmental and Information System (ICENIS 2017)
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| Article Number | 01009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | 01. Energy Education, Planning, Conversion and Management | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183101009 | |
| Published online | 21 February 2018 | |
CFD Analysis to Calculate the Optimal Air Velocity in Drying Green Tea Process Using Fluidized Bed Dryer
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang - Indonesia
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Undergraduate of Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang - Indonesia
* Corresponding author: efnan2003@gmail.com
Tea processing is basically distinguished into three types which black tea, green tea, and oolong tea. Green tea is processed by heating and drying the leaves. Green tea factories in Indonesia are generally using the process of drying by panning the leaves. It is more recommended to use the fluidization process to speed up the drying process as the quality of the tea can be maintained. Bubbling fluidization is expected to occur in this research. It is a process of bubbles are formed in the fluidization. The effectiveness of the drying process in a fluidized bed dryer machine needs to be improved by using a CFD simulation method to proof that umf < u < ut, where the average velocity value is limited by the minimum and the maximum velocity of the calculation the experimental data. The minimum and the maximum velocity value of the fluidization is 0.96 m/s and 8.2 m/s. The result of the simulation obtained that the average velocity of the upper bed part is 1.81 m/s. From the results obtained, it can be concluded that the calculation and the simulation data is in accordance with the condition of bubbling fluidization in fluidized bed dryer.
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