Design and Development of a Solar Dryer

Abstract

A solar cloth dryer was made with the help of available materials.Its efficiency was investigated with respect to how fast it was able to dry up the clothes.Hence a set of experiments were performed to determine the worthiness of this solar dryer.The experiments showed that the dryer works fine as per its objectives.The main advantage of this dryer is that it can work all round the year,with a built-in auxiliary heating system.Also,with no moving parts,it consumes less power than conventional dryers in washing machines.It can easily be built with commonly available materials