Innovation Detail

Innovation Description

Profile 
Pradyumna is a student of Government Junior College, Koppa (Karanataka). He wants to become a scientist. 

Purpose  
The student’s family has been faced problems with drying the areca nuts. This is a general problem for farmers of his region. All the time, they struggle to dry the areca nuts after harvesting. Pradyumna thought about the problem and came with an idea to develop dryers for areca nuts.

Technical details
A sensitive dryer is a machine that protects areca nuts from the rain while drying under the sunlight. This dryer can be used to dry other grains or cereals. This saves the time and labour for the farmer while drying the areca nuts. The dryer is suitable for farmers growing areca nuts.

Benefits
It is used for drying raw materials in the pharmaceutical industry and food industry.





Suggested Reading(s):  

Divekar, S. P., Sonawane, T., & VT, B. (2017). Development and Evaluation of Waste-Fired Dryer for Arecanut. Advanced Agricultural Research & Technology Journal, 1, 172-176.  

Kulanthaisami, S., Subramanian, P., Venkatachalam, P., & Sampathrajan, A. (2007). Drying kinetics of arecanut using solar cum biomass drying system. Madras Agricultural Journal, 94, 256-268.  

Shukla, B. D. (2001). Drying technology and equipment in India. Drying Technology, 19(8), 1807-1824.