A review on indirect type solar dryers for agricultural crops–Dryer setup, its performance, energy storage and important highlights

AB Lingayat, VP Chandramohan, VRK Raju, V Meda - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Inadequate preservation techniques and poor storage provisions lead to deterioration in the
quality of agricultural products. Advanced processing techniques have been used to reduce …

Review on phase change materials for solar energy storage applications

R Naveenkumar, M Ravichandran… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The energy storage application plays a vital role in the utilization of the solar energy
technologies. There are various types of the energy storage applications are available in the …

Energy and exergy analyses of drying medicinal herb in a novel forced convection solar dryer integrated with SHSM and PCM

AK Bhardwaj, R Kumar, S Kumar, B Goel… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article examined the performance of a low cost, economically viable and a novel forced
convection solar drying system. To control the thermal fluctuations during the day-night …

Performance augmentation and machine learning-based modeling of wavy corrugated solar air collector embedded with thermal energy storage: Support vector …

ME Zayed, AE Kabeel, B Shboul, WM Ashraf… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
At present, artificial intelligence methods have been effectively utilized for predicting the
complex performance of storage-based solar thermal technologies for cooling/heating …

Experimental analysis of CPV/T solar dryer with nano-enhanced PCM and prediction of drying parameters using ANN and SVM algorithms

MO Karaağaç, A Ergün, Ü Ağbulut, AE Gürel, I Ceylan - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a concentrated photovoltaic-thermal solar dryer (CPV/TSD) using nano-
enhanced PCM (Al 2 O 3-Paraffin wax) is experimentally studied. A comprehensive …

Energy-exergy and sustainability analysis of a PV-driven quadruple-flow solar drying system

A Khanlari, A Sözen, F Afshari, AD Tuncer - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar energy as a clean energy source is widely investigated to find out the effective
mechanisms to meet a large part of energy demand in the near future. In the present …

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 …

CFD modeling and evaluation the performance of a solar cabinet dryer equipped with evacuated tube solar collector and thermal storage system

M Iranmanesh, HS Akhijahani, MSB Jahromi - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the performance of a solar cabinet drying system equipped with a
heat pipe evacuated tube solar collector (ETSC) and thermal storage system with …

Experimental investigation and performance evaluation of a novel solar dryer integrated with a combination of SHS and PCM for drying chilli in the Himalayan region

AK Bhardwaj, R Kumar, R Chauhan, S Kumar - Thermal Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work presents an experimental analysis of a novel indirect solar dryer for drying chillies
in the Western Himalayas. Iron scrap assorted with gravels are kept on the absorber plate …

An experimental case study on development the design and the performance of indirect solar dryer type for drying bananas

MS El-Sebaey, SMT Mousavi, SS El-Din, FA Essa - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the shortages of fossil fuels and higher prices, as well as to reduce the causes of
climate change and the fuel consumption utilized in the drying procedure, more emphasis is …