The overuse of fossil fuels in real life applications has caused their rapid depletion and fast
climate change due to global warming and thus access to eco-friendly energy resources has …

Energy resources and their utilization intimately relate to sustainable development. In
attaining sustainable development, increasing the energy efficiencies of processes utilizing …

The energy, exergy and economic analysis of indirect type solar dryer (ITSD) was performed
while drying green chilli under forced and natural convection. Fans powered by PV panels …

Drying is an essential process in the preservation of agricultural crops and in industries,
such as textile production, dairy processing, cement production, clay brick production, tile …

This paper presents a review of the exergy and sustainability index of solar thermal systems.
The review includes exergy analyses of solar collectors, solar drying systems and …

In recent years, growing attention has been given to exergy analysis of drying processes
and systems and optimization of drying processes using exergy concept. This research …

Energy consumption for drying of mushroom slices was evaluated using various drying
methods including hot air, microwave, vacuum, infrared, microwave-vacuum and hot air …

This study aimed to predict the drying kinetics, energy utilization (Eu), energy utilization ratio
(EUR), exergy loss, and exergy efficiency of quince slice in a hot air (HA) dryer using …

Characteristics of thin layer microwave drying of apple were evaluated in a laboratory scale
microwave dryer at 2450 MHz. The drying experiments were carried out at 200, 400 and 600 …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of thin-layer drying-curve models available in
the literature and their comparisons for single-layer drying applications from 2003 to 2013. In …