The
illustration here presents a Sustainability Engineered Design
concept: Drying wet/ green vegetation and other such organic matter,
without grid-electricity or without using any fossil fuel based energy
systems.

The
atmospheric temperature conditions could be considered as in the
following illustration

The
materials input per batch is to be decided based on the following:
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Average
minimum moisture content in the input materials could be taken as
around 65% to 70%. Input materials are: Various Plants, vegetables,
Farm wastes, kitchen wastes, wood chips, animal wastes, etc in different combination of volumes
( to be considered as not easily ascertained nor practical to be
considered)
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The
final dried material to have about 7% to 9% equilibrium moisture
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Daily
Total "wet" materials to be dried = 2 tons
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Each
Module could be one-fourth the "full volume" drying needs
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As
the top water spray is to be done using animal power, we need not
consider that energy need in this design – except that water spray
is available. Only design aspect here would be to assess how much
volume (rate) water is needed
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It
is also assumed that the input materials are in shredded form
(approximately 25 mm to 50 mm max sizes) … or the design could
suggest the sizes to be used
We
shall name this: SELF GENERATED VACUUM EVAPORATOR-CONDENSER (SGVEC)
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