Solar drying: clean, green, and efficient
The SunGenius Mobile Mini Solar Dehydrator protects your product from direct sunlight while ensuring natural drying. As a hybrid solar-electric appliance, it works both indoors and outdoors, in any weather, and is engineered for maximum solar efficiency and energy savings.
How does it work?
The Mini Solar Dryer harnesses solar thermal energy to deliver efficient drying in a compact, innovative design that is transforming home-based food drying.
A UV-protected transparent polycarbonate panel (A) faces the sun, allowing light to heat the black-coated aluminum panel (B). The black surface absorbs solar heat, while the highly conductive aluminum quickly transfers it into the drying chamber.
This heat is further trapped in the air cavity between the transparent layer and the aluminum, warming the air inside. As hot air rises, cooler, dry air is naturally drawn in. The warmed air continues upward into the top cavity, where it is further heated before being circulated by a high-volume fan (C).
Finally, the hot air is directed through the food trays, ensuring consistent drying, before exiting at the bottom of the dryer.
Take your rusks outside, free up your kitchen and let the sun dry it for free
This groundbreaking innovation
revolutionizes traditional drying methods
Leverages your rusks or sun-dried products as a powerful marketing edge, setting your product apart from the competition. The rich, naturally intensified flavour and unique solar-drying process will make your brand stand out, capturing customer attention and adding an exclusive touch to your offerings.
- The mini solar dryer will dry your rusks, fruit, veggies and herbs at almost no cost
- Four drying racks included 550 x 450mm
- There is no solar panel as the oven dries your food directly from solar thermal energy. The heat directly from the sun
- The air circulation is generated by a high volume 220v extractor fan
- Drying box dimensions: 600 x 500 x 500mm
- Insect repellent
- Wheels make solar tracking easy
- Transparent collector top and back as well as the door are covered with unbreakable, UV protected poly carbonate sheet
- The drying oven will increase the ambient temperature by 20 to 25°C
- If the ambient temperature is 35°C the temperature in the oven will be 50 to 60°C
- The temperature can be manipulated by manipulating the oven towards or away from the sun
- Interesting fact about drying foodstuffs: The volume of the air replacement inside the dryer has a much bigger effect on drying foodstuffs than the temperature of the air.
- We dry our rusks during the night as well without adding any heat, as the low temperature enhance the taste or texture of the end product. You do not need a high temperature to dry rusks.
These ovens are all hand made, with less than 5% imported materials
Choose any of the two mini solar drying ovens
- Solar Only: R3300.00 PLUS high volume electrical fan and 4 rusk drying racks
- Solar/Electrical: R3800.00 with a 400w electrical element a high volume electrical fan plus 4 rusk drying racks
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Mini Solar Dryer is primarily a solar dryer and not an electrical appliance like your oven in the house. The drying process must therefore not be compared to the drying process in your electrical or gas oven, although it can be highly impressive.
The Mini Solar Dryer dries from solar thermal energy and the drying time will change from season to season, day and night and even during the day. The electrical element has no thermostat and developed to simulate the solar thermal drying as well as to be used with solar PV systems. Energy saving remains the main goal and should be kept in mind at all times.
The mini solar dryer is a smaller replica of our walk in commercial solar rusk dryer.
Its duel action drying capacity is highly impressive as we can dry up to 250kg rusks in a day in a 3 x 2 x 2 cube from the sun only.
