Currently flue-cured tobacco with photovoltaic panels

Can solar energy be used for tobacco curing in Zimbabwe?

The potential use of solar energy to complement the heat energy requirement for small scale farmer tobacco curing in Zimbabwe is feasible and economically viable. According to design if a curing barn is properly insulated, wood energy required is 28MJ/kg instead of the traditional 32,2 MJ/kg to fully cure a kg of leaf tobacco.

What are the advantages of solar thermal collectors for tobacco curing?

Solar thermals collectors have an efficiency of 30%, compared to 15% for the photovoltaic systems, making them a better option for tobacco curing process. 4.2 Barn Parameters

What is flue cured tobacco?

Flue-cured tobacco (FT) is one of the most widely planted tobacco types in China. In the process of FT production, Tobacco curing (TC) is still the most energy-consuming link, accounting for more than 80% of the energy used in the production process of TC 1, 2, 3.

Can a barn ABF cure flue-cured tobacco?

Compared with the barn BBF and barn coal, the barn ABF can meet the flue-cured tobacco curing highest temperature requirements of 68 °C, the accuracy of the target dry bulb temperature (DBT) curve during the curing of flue-cured tobacco was 93.4%.

Can a flat plate air collector be used for tobacco curing?

So by implementing a flat plate air collector of a size 22m2to an insulated barn will make a contribution of 30.5% of the energy required for tobacco curing.According to this investigationit was shown that solar could be used to produce heat that could be used in the curing barn.

Are flue-cured tobacco data publicly available?

Meanwhile, limited by different industry applications, the flue-cured tobacco datasets are hard to be obtained publicly. The existing methods employ relatively small and lower resolution tobacco data that are hard to apply in practice.