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Design and Fabrication of Petal Drying System (Air Drying)

. Haider Ali, Izhar ul Haq, Muhammad Usman Qadir & Abdul Basit


Abstract

- In recent year every industry has revolutionized and productions are to be completed in lesser time than usual. For this purpose, every industry is focusing on obtaining an artificial way to complete natural phenomena in an artificial environment. This research presents design and fabrication of a petal drying system especially for rose petals, which is designed to dry petals efficiently and quickly, with an approximate drying time of 35 to 55 minutes. The system has various states according the temperature inside the chamber and The dryer’s control system is implemented using an Arduino microcontroller and the includes an LCD screen for temperature and humidity monitoring. The system's virtual modeling is done using SolidWorks (for Structure Modelling) and Proteus (for Circuit Modelling). The system outperforms in terms of weight reduction, moisture content removal and maintaining the color and fragrance of the dried rose petals.

 

Keywords- humidity, rose petals, temperature, time, weight reduction.

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