development and evaluation of an all weather-type solar drying house to make for wood pellet material开发和评估的所有实现对太阳气候类型的太阳能干燥室木颗粒材料.pdfVIP

Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 2012, 2, 153-162 doi:10.4236/ojapps.2012.23022 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojapps) Development and Evaluation of an All Weather-Type * Solar Drying House to Make for Wood Pellet Material 1 2 1 3 Kimio Kanayama , Shinya Koga , Hiromu Baba , Tomoyoshi Sugawara 1Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan 2Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 3Marusho-Giken Co. Ltd., Ashoro, Japan Email: kmkana@bridge.ocn.ne.jp Received July 16, 2012; revised August 18, 2012; accepted August 28, 2012 ABSTRACT To suppress the global environment pollutions, we tried to develop a new-type solar drying house by improving a typi- cal agricultural green-house, so that an all weather-type solar drying house was invented ultimately. This house is capa- ble 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