Sunday, May 16, 2010

What kind of light can I use to heat air?

I need a heat source that heats the air to dry flowers, I need to find something that will produce heat like how your garage would be on a very hot summers day

What kind of light can I use to heat air?
Use an infared lamp. Works great.
Reply:There is no source of heat that will heat air directly. Otherwise the atmosphere would warm as the sun passes thru it and it simply doesnt do that. It heats by Convection, conduction, and radiation when the suns' rays are absorbed into a solid or liquid medium.





To dry flowers its best done WITHOUT HEAT. I know you are going to be very surprised at what I am going to say but that is going to be your best method.





Convert an old Freezer to a drying machine. What happens in this sort of an atmosphere is the air in there is so dry that it literally will draw out every last molecule of water right out of that newly cut flower.





Set the old Freezer to near 30 degrees F. and the air will soon be so dessert dry that it will not have any moisture in it and it will then seek out the moisture in the flowers drying them very rapidly.





This method is called "freeze drying" after the process used in making instant coffee which is made by a similar process of freeze drying and a vacuum is pulled on the coffee in addition to a temperature drop near zero.
Reply:Try a Heat lamp.
Reply:a blow-dryer.


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