Indoor Forced Convection Drying of Giloy Stem: An Experimental Investigation

In this work, the convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) of Giloy (Tinospora Cordifolia) has been determined using indoor forced convection hot air electric drying (IFCHAED). The experiment was carried out in September 2023 under the climatic conditions of Rohtak. In an experimental drier, the giloy was dried until it achieved the acceptable safe humidity preservation level of 8–10%. As a consequence, to figure out the parameters of the trial constants n or c in the Nusselt value formulation, CHTC was computed by doing a basic linear regression study on the experimental data. The average CHTC h
c
, value is 1.07 W/m
²
°C. The error in the experiment is calculated as a percentage of uncertainty which is having an average value of 10.5436 for the instruments.