The aim of this work is to develop thermal modeling of the olive mill wastewater drying process in a greenhouse solar dryer.A configuration was thus proposed and simulated using the commercial software COMSOL Multiphysics Power Scooters in order to solve the conservation equations governing our problem.The resulting simulations are used to evaluate the temperature, velocity, and vapor mass fraction distributions after hours of sunshine and to provide a quantification of the drying process.
The influence of the greenhouse effect on the drying kinetics is highlighted by comparing to open sun-drying Clamp results.The effect of some greenhouse geometric characteristics and external meteorological conditions are studied.