Drying fresh cassava chip using biomass energy with IoT monitoring system

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this work is to build a biomass dryer using coconut shells with a remote monitoring system for drying any kind of cracker raw materials, especially cassava chips. Remote monitoring has utilized the internet of thing (IoT) concept, which recording temperature, relative humidity, and relative moisture of the object inside the dryer. The dryer can be loaded with three shelves simultaneously. Raw material for cassava crackers with a total mass of 10 kg. The raw material for cassava crackers is placed in the Biomass drying chamber. The raw material for cassava crackers is dried within two hours. The loss of moisture content of all raw materials for cassava crackers increased with increasing drying time and temperature. It is recommended to use drying system with utilize IoT system as remote monitoring system because it will save in time and employee, as well as minimize human contact in the new normal condition because of Covid-19 pandemic. © 2022, Int. Comm. of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. All rights reserved.