TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sompong Pichetpinyo
AU  - Exell,Robert H.B.
AU  - Bhattacharya,Sribas C.
AU  - Sauter-Servaes,Florian
ED  - The Canadian International Development Agency Board Based Development Program (CIDA-BBD), 
TI  - Experimental testing of a solar assisted tabacco curing system in Chiang Mai
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Tobacco curing
KW  - Solar heating
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Environment, Resources & Development; Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1984
N2  - A solar air heater and a rock bed heat store were designed, installed and tested on an  existing tobacco curing barn of size 6m x 6m x 8.5m. The air heater was a flat plate solar collector of area 36 M2 and the rock bed heat store had a volume of 12.5 M3. The energy efficiency, energy balance and economics of the conventional flue-cured system and the solar system were determined and compared on the same barn.  The energy efficiency of the conventional flue-cured system was very low while that of the solar system was higher. The solar system helped save about 30-40 percent of the fuel wood used in the conventional system and the quality of the tobacco cured leaf was improved.
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