Fruits and vegetables are an integral part of the human diet. Many developing countries
such as Tanzania experience post-harvest losses of 40%, and there is little ability to …

Concentrating solar panels (CSP) improve the process of solar drying Roma tomatoes. This
paper presents a performance comparison between two mixed-mode solar dryers. The …

Drying performance of a solar cabinet dryer newly developed to dry tomato slices was
compared with open sun drying under the climatic conditions of Montreal, Canada. The …

Solar energy is the most promising of the renewable energy sources in view of its apparent
limitless potential. A small scale village–level solar dryer for tomato was developed under …

Abstract African Leafy Vegetables hold a high potential as an income source for resource
poor rural dwellers in Cameroon but this potential has not been realized because of lack of …

A prototype of a hybrid solar dryer was developed for drying of tomato. It consists of a flat-
plate concentrating collector, heat storage with auxiliary heating unit, and drying unit. It has a …

A lab model vacuum-assisted solar dryer was developed to study the drying kinetics of
tomato slices (4, 6, and 8 mm thicknesses) compared with open sun drying under the …

Africa has a very high solar insolation and a large agrarian sector with a lot of drying of
agricultural products carried out with mostly open sun drying. However, efforts have been …

Solar fruit drying is a technology that is successfully applied on both domestic and
commercial scale among smallholder farmers in Uganda. However, existing solar drying …

Agricultural products such as coffee, tobacco, tea, fruit, cocoa beans, rice, nuts, and timber
generally require drying through a consistent application of relatively low heat. Traditionally …