Please share your experience on the duration of air drying fresh leaf samples (~13% moisture) at room temperature?
- Please share if you had different leaf and environemental conditions of air drying. I am interested in the duration it took you
I dont know the thickness of the leaves exactly, but could be about 0.5 to 0.8mm thick.
Please if you can, describe the thickness of the sample you worked on too.
Hello Andrew
Drying time of leaves sample strongly depend upon the climatic conditions (temperature, relative humidity, air velocity), and thickness of the leaf beds. Higher temperature and lower relative humidity and thickness of beds will decrease the drying time.
shade or air dried leaf samples are very good in color, appearance and composition. it takes 3-4 days to dry leaf at shade or room with moisture 8-13%. i have dried taro and cassava leaf samples using room drying for 3 days.
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