<![CDATA[Vanilla processing has four main steps: withering, sweating, drying and aging. Â Quite often, sweating and drying becomes obstacle to farmers; while the most affecting step to vanilla quality is drying. Â The aim of this research is to find out the characteristic and efficiency of vanilla dryer.Basic computation in this research is using 2000 kgs vanilla 88.73% moisture content and being sweated at 40oC every 5 hour each day for 6 days to reach 83.4% moisture content. Â After that it is dried at 50oC every 5 hour/day for 6 days to reach 30%.Fuel consumption is as much as 0.5 kg/h so the total heat energy yielded by fuel combustion (LHV) is 1,506,122.80 kJ. Â The energy is used to heat the drying room as much as 332,927.41 kJ. Â The heating energy is used for material drying as much as 256,855.06 kJ, Â thus the total energy efficiency of the artificial dryer for vanilla processing is 22.10% and drying efficiency is 17.05%.Keywords: vanilla fruit, artificial dryer]]>
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