Drying for agricultural and marine products are one of the most attractive and cost-effective
application of solar energy. Numerous types of solar dryers have been designed and …

An attempt is made to review various aspects of solar driers applied to drying of food
products at small scale. Popular types of driers in Asia-Pacific region, and new types of …

In the north-eastern geographical setting of India, lies Tripura, the second largest state of
India in terms of natural rubber cultivation. Often, the unpredictable weather and lack of …

Smallholder rubber producers typically dry rubber in the open air, a process that takes about
seven days, allowing the rubber to deteriorate and thus decreasing the price obtained by the …

This work describes the thermal behavior and evaluation of kinetics drying of natural rubber
sheets using two solar drying technologies: direct and indirect. The solar drying tests were …

ABSTRACT A novel low cost tray dryer equipped with a solar air collector, a heat storage
cabinet and a solar chimney is designed and tested. The design is based on energy …

The study investigates the more general and fundamental case when variable width
absorbers are utilized instead of conventional rectangular plates in collecting incident solar …

This paper presents the design, construction and testing of a simple solar dryer for food
preservation. Its construction was accomplished using mainly inexpensive locally available …

A design procedure was proposed for sizing solar-assisted crop-drying systems and
assessing the combination of solar collector area and auxiliary energy needs that meets the …

In this paper, a novel “Sandwich Greenhouse” for rubber sheet drying is proposed. Using
solar energy as the only heat source instead of traditional smoke house that requires …