@article{3226,
author = "Lawrence Atepor",
abstract = "In order to help Ghanaian rural cocoa farmers, a cocoa pod husk fueled dryer has been designed and a prototype manufactured. It uses the husk heater for producing hot air and drying a drying chamber for accommodating the products to be dried. Performance characteristics of the dryer has been evaluated experimentally based on drying of 20Kg of wet cocoa beans. Analysis showed that the moisture reduction from 60.01% to 7.47% was achieved within 8 hours using the cocoa pod husk fueled dryer at an average drying temperature of 61.4 oC, and from 60.01% to 7.93% within 36 hours in open sun drying. The even drying efficiency of the dryer is above 91%. Hence, adopting the dryer will be beneficial to the rural cocoa farmer and will eventually help boost cocoa production for economic gains of the country.",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Cocoa;Cocoa Pod Husk;Dryer;Moisture Content;Time",
month = "September",
number = "2",
pages = "132-138",
title = "{D}evelopment of {C}ocoa {P}od {H}usk {F}ueled {D}ryer for {R}ural {C}ocoa {F}armers",
volume = "9",
year = "2020",
}