Abstract
A gas-fired oven for commercial production of bread was designed and
constructed using locally available material, and was subjected to various'tests to
come out with its performance characteristics. Itsperformance was evaluated
and then compared withsrespect to the total time required to bake a specified
mass of white flour dough using the gas oven with that used by clay wood fired
oven for the same mass of white flour dough. .,
The outcome of the test result indicated that the ni&ximum temperature attained
by the oven was 400'~ with the gas control valves at close to the tqaxir.num
point (without load). This temperature was' attaivd seven minutes after firing
the oven. The clay wood fired oven tested attained a peak temperature of 280'~
one hour after it was fired. White flour dough of mass 0.2kg was baked in the
gas fired oven in thirty nine minutes (first load), this corresponds t6 the total
baking time. The same unit mass of dough was baked in the wood fired oven in
a total baking time of eight-five 'minutes.
A test cqied out on the insulating machine, sawdust, showed that it minimized
the heat loss from the oven by maintaining a high temperature gradient ,between
the inside wall and the outer'wall of the 'oven. The preliminary economic
analysis of tie cost of production of the oven and the cost of fuel showed that it
is cost effec't~vea nd viable.
F, O (2021). Performance Evaluation Of A Gas (Butane) Fired Oven. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/performance-evaluation-of-a-gas-butane-fired-oven
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