Advancements in solar drying technologies: Design variations, hybrid systems, storage materials and numerical analysis: A review

MA Kherrafi, A Benseddik, R Saim, A Bouregueba… - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar drying technologies and applications in the last 10 years have been summarized and
discussed in this article. A wide scope of the main elements that make this technique …

Shrinkage, effective diffusion coefficient, surface transfer coefficients and their factors during solar drying of food products–A review

VR Mugi, VP Chandramohan - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Drying of food materials leads to an increase in shelf-life and gives quality end products.
Drying with solar energy is an economical and environmentally friendly method than other …

Energy and exergy analysis of a photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system used in solar dryer: A numerical and experimental investigation

E Çiftçi, A Khanlari, A Sözen, İ Aytaç, AD Tuncer - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collectors can be applied in order to concurrently generation of
electrical and thermal energy. In the present study, a vertical hybrid PVT solar dryer has …

Experimental and numerical analysis of a grooved hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar drying system

AD Tuncer, A Khanlari, F Afshari, A Sözen… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) systems are sustainable applications that allows to produce
thermal and electrical energies simultaneously. In this work, a sustainable solar drying …

CFD coupled heat and mass transfer simulation of pineapple drying process using mixed-mode solar dryers integrated with flat plate and finned collector

P Rani, PP Tripathy - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The present research deals with the analysis of 3-dimensional computational models to
analyze the airflow, temperature profile of dryer coupled with heat transfer of pineapple …

Solar drying of medicinal herbs: A review

TSSB Rao, S Murugan - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Health consciousness has been increasing gradually in the entire world during the last three
decades. Naturally and artificially produced medicines are consumed by the people for …

Utilization of recyclable aluminum cans as fins in a vertical solar air heating system: An experimental and numerical study

A Khanlari, AD Tuncer, F Afshari, G Sözen - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heating loads cover a large portion of the total energy consumption of buildings. Solar air
heating is a sustainable and low-cost alternative for heating applications instead of …

Investigation of the effects of solar tracking system on performance of the solar air dryer

M Das, EK Akpinar - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Design of the collector in solar air collector dryer (SACD) system is very important
factor for high drying performance and the effective use of solar radiation. The main purpose …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation and experimentation on parameters influencing microwave-assisted extraction of bioactive compounds from Kaempferia parviflora rhizomes

M Nisoa, A Plodkaew, C Sirisathitkul… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a microwave extractor was successfully developed by simulating the waves
and electric fields in a heating chamber. The chamber size and positions of the magnetrons …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an analytical model to predict the churning power losses of an orthogonal face gear

X Zhu, Y Dai - Engineering Science and Technology, an International …, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the basic energy dissipations for one orthogonal face gear running partially
submerged in an oil bath, there is no open literature concerned on the churning power …