Illuminating sustainability: a comprehensive review of the environmental life cycle and exergetic impacts of solar systems on the agri-food sector

B Hamidinasab, H Javadikia, F Hosseini-Fashami… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The developing agri-food sector significantly boosts food production and plays a crucial role
in resolving the global food crisis. This development is valuable when accompanied by …

Energy, exergy, economic and environmental analyses of solar air heating systems with and without thermal energy storage for sustainable development: A systematic …

SK Pathak, VV Tyagi, K Chopra, B Kalidasan… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar air heating is the most widely used for crop drying, building and space heating
applications due to its technological maturity and economic viability. Still, solar air heaters …

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 …

Enhancing the performance of a greenhouse dryer with natural dolomite powder-embedded latent heat thermal energy storage unit and air-to-air heat recovery system

F Selimefendigil, C Şirin - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Greenhouse drying systems (GDSs) are grouped in direct-type solar dryers and are widely
utilised because of their easy applicability, high product drying capacity and cost …

Improving the performance of an active greenhouse dryer by integrating a solar absorber north wall coated with graphene nanoplatelet-embedded black paint

F Selimefendigil, C Şirin, HF Öztop - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Greenhouse drying systems are sustainable and clean applications for preserving
agricultural crops. In this work, a single-slope greenhouse drying system has been modified …

Energy and exergy analysis of a natural convection solar greenhouse drier with insulated opaque walls for drying aromatic yellow pepper

O Anuma, MC Ndukwu, G Usoh, EO Sam, G Akpan… - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The thermodynamic analysis of a simple natural convection solar greenhouse drier with
insulated opaque walls has been proposed for drying aromatic yellow pepper. The aim is to …

Investigation of exergy-energy and environ-economic performance parameters of active indirect solar dryer for pineapple drying without and with energy storage unit

MC Gilago, VR Mugi, VP Chandramohan - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The quality, quantity and availability of energy, the environmental impact, and the economic
importance (4E) of a forced convection indirect solar dryer without (setup-1) and with thermal …

Experimental investigation of a parabolic greenhouse dryer improved with copper oxide nano‐enhanced latent heat thermal energy storage unit

F Selimefendigil, C Şirin - International Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar dryers are clean and sustainable systems for preserving agricultural products. In this
research, three different active greenhouse dryers, which are grouped in direct solar drying …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the performance of a greenhouse drying system by using triple-flow solar air collector with nano-enhanced absorber coating

F Selimefendigil, C Şirin, K Ghachem, L Kolsi… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this research, the impacts of utilizing nano-embedded absorber coating in an auxiliary
heater of a greenhouse drying system on the thermal and drying performances have been …

Exergy and environmental analysis of an active greenhouse dryer with Al2O3 nano-embedded latent heat thermal storage system: An experimental study

F Selimefendigil, C Şirin, K Ghachem, L Kolsi - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, influences of integrating nanoparticles into paraffin-based latent heat thermal
energy storage system on the thermal and drying behaviors of a greenhouse dryer have …