Design of a Prototyping Food Dehydration Machine

Abstract

Food drying is an important procedure for dehydrating vegetables and fruits and keeping them suitable for consumption at any time of year, especially outside of the harvesting and picking season. It's also a procedure for keeping these materials from decaying and spoiling owing to moisture. This is the project's basic concept: to design a machine that automatically dries vegetables and fruits by removing moisture. This could be accomplished by placing vegetables or fruits in this machine and subjecting them to a specific atmospheric condition for a set period of time, known as a dehydration cycle, in which the temperature and air velocity are changed during the dehydration process. The advantages of adopting such a machine include increased production, the elimination of human errors in dehydration quality, and the protection of the material from environmental side effects or actors such as dust, dew, and rain. The proposed design is prototyping-friendly and can dehydrate 3 kg of material, but it can also be scaled up for businesses or large production