Recent progress on solar cabinet dryers for agricultural products equipped with energy storage using phase change materials

MSB Jahromi, V Kalantar, HS Akhijahani… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy can be used directly and indirectly in thermal processes such as solar dryers.
Solar dryers have a high potential to dry wet samples, especially agricultural products with …

Life cycle assessment, energy and exergy analysis in an indirect cabinet solar dryer equipped with phase change materials

P Mirzaee, P Salami, HS Akhijahani, S Zareei - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effect of using phase change materials (PCMs) in a cabinet dryer
on thermal and drying efficiency. Three positions related to PCM inside the cabinet were …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical investigation of phase change material assisted indirect solar dryer for food quality preservation

P Lad, R Kumar, R Saxena, J Patel - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2023 - Elsevier
High temperature and direct sunlight due to tropical climatic conditions in India causes
excessive heating in traditional solar dryer or open air sun drying process. Due to this, loss …

A comprehensive review of solar dryers incorporated with phase change materials for enhanced drying efficiency

AAA Abueluor, MT Amin, MA Abuelnour… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Shifting from fossil oil-generated electrical power to green energy has been a topic of
greatest interest due to its huge negative impact on the environment and human well-being …

Review of solar dryers with latent heat storage systems for agricultural products

LM Bal, S Satya, SN Naik, V Meda - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
Drying of agricultural food products is one of the most attractive and cost-effective
application of solar energy as it becomes a potentially viable substitute for fuel–wood in …

Experimental analysis of small size solar dryer with phase change materials for food preservation

S Rakshamuthu, S Jegan, JJ Benyameen… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development and performance analysis of a small size greenhouse solar dryer
equipped with phase change materials (PCM) for drying food products are reported in this …

Performance of a large-scale greenhouse solar dryer integrated with phase change material thermal storage system for drying of chili

P Pankaew, O Aumporn, S Janjai… - … Journal of Green …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Large-scale greenhouse solar dryers have been used for drying various products and this
type of dryer is usually equipped with LPG burner as auxiliary heater, which creates more …

A review of research and development work on solar dryers with heat storage

A Agrawal, RM Sarviya - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Drying of agricultural food products is one of the most attractive and cost-effective
applications of solar energy. The solar dryer is less reliable due to the intermittent nature of …

Thermal energy storage based solar drying systems: A review

K Kant, A Shukla, A Sharma, A Kumar, A Jain - Innovative food science & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Solar dryer based on thermal energy storage materials is quite effective for continuously
drying agriculture and food products at steady state in the temperature range (40° C–60° C) …

Experimental analysis of solar fish dryer using phase change material

VM Swami, AT Autee, TR Anil - Journal of Energy Storage, 2018 - Elsevier
The drying process for food preservation is very general for a number of agriculture and food
products. Drying is a better option than refrigeration of food products with respect to the cost …