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Papaya drying and waste conversion system. Final report

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United States : [publisher not identified], 1982
Springfield, Va.: National Technical Information Service, [approximately 1982]
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microfiche : negative ; 11 x 15 cm

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Summary
This project, performed under United States Department of Energy Small-scale Appropriate Energy Technology Grant, involves demonstration of an integrated system using solar energy to process off-grade or reject fruit into marketable food products. The integrated system consists of three phases: (1) solar dehydration of usable fruit; (2) solar vacuum distillation of fermented wastes (peelings, rinds, skins, and seeds) to produce an ethanol fuel to use as a backup source of heat for dehydration; and (3) land reclamation by mixing stillage and compost with volcanic cinder and ash to produce on marginal land a rich soil suitable for growing more crops to dry. Although the system is not 100% complete the investigators have demonstrated that a small business can efficiently use solar energies in an integrated fashion to process waste into food, improve the quality of the land, and provide meaningful jobs in a region of very high unemployment.
Report Numbers
DE86000349; DOE/SF/10570-T1; HI-79-005
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DOE contract number: FG03-79SF10570
OSTI Identifier 5202741
Research organization: La Malo'o Dried Fruit, Pahoa, HI (USA).
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