https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2007140
Greenhouse-effect dehydration of a product wrapped in a semi-transparent, semi-permeable film: experimental approach and proposed approached model
Laboratoire TREFLE (UMR 8508), ENSAM, Esplanade des Arts et Métiers, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
Corresponding author: denis.bruneau@bordeaux.ensam.fr
Received:
10
October
2006
Revised:
15
February
2007
Accepted:
12
July
2007
Published online:
21
September
2007
An experimental study is presented involving the modelling of a concept which enables exterior dehydration of contaminating or fragile products. This concept is based upon the use of a ground-breaking film which is permeable exclusively to water vapour and semi-transparent to the sun's rays. The experimental results presented (derived from a campaign conducted with the help of a drying cell designed for this purpose) lead to the setting up of a simple model enabling the design and sizing of systems based on the use of this film to be considered.
PACS: 44.90.+c – Other topics in heat transfer (restricted to new topics in section 44) / 89.30.Ee – Hydroelectric, hydrothermal, geothermal and wind power / 44.40.+a – Thermal radiation
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