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 …

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 …

Experimental performance and economic viability of evacuated tube solar collector assisted greenhouse dryer for sustainable development

S Singh, RS Gill, VS Hans, TC Mittal - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A walk-in type solar greenhouse dryer supplemented with solar air heating system has been
developed with an objective of sustainable development. One of its novel features is the use …

Recent developments on photovoltaic thermal drying systems: a clean energy production

Manisha, S Tiwari, D Chhabra, M Kumari… - Clean Technologies and …, 2023 - Springer
With the increase in population globally, a big problem has been raised, which is food
supply. A remedy to this problem is to use an ancient practice of sun drying to preserve …

Impact of different drying methods on the phenolic composition, in vitro antioxidant activity, and quality attributes of dragon fruit slices and pulp

H Dadhaneeya, RK Kesavan, BS Inbaraj, M Sharma… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to compare the refractance window drying method (RWD) with the
hot air oven drying (HD), vacuum drying (VD), and freeze-drying (FD) methods in order to …

7E+ Q analysis: a new multi-dimensional assessment tool of solar dryer for food and agricultural products

EE Susanto, A Saptoro, P Kumar, ANT Tiong… - Environment …, 2024 - Springer
Drying process has been employed since ancient times to preserve agricultural products by
reducing the moisture content. Solar dryer is one of the most commonly used dryers due to …

Experimental investigation of modified indirect solar dryer with integrated thermal storage material for drying of dhekia (Diplazium esculentum) fern

D Saikia, PK Nayak, KR Krishnan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Food product drying is a crucial stage in the preservation of crops and agricultural by-
products that are used as raw materials for numerous end applications. The novelty of the …

Performance evaluation of modified forced convection solar dryer with energy storage unit for drying of elephant apple (Dillenia indica)

R Kondareddy, S Natarajan… - Journal of Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development and performance of a modified force convection solar dryer (MFCSD) for
drying elephant apple slices have been presented in this research. The MFCSD consists of …

Experimental investigation and energy-exergy-environmental-economic analysis of modified indirect solar dual collector dryer while drying myrobalan slices

R Kondareddy, PK Nayak, KR Krishnan, D Deka… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
The paper presents the performance evaluation of a modified indirect solar dual collector
dryer (MIS2CD) integrated with a thermal storage system for drying myrobalan slices. The …

Energy and exergy analyses of solar drying of black cardamom (Amomum subulatom Roxburgh) using indirect type flat plate collector solar dryer

S Dash, S Choudhury, KK Dash - Journal of Food Process …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study has summarized the energy and exergy analyses of flat plate collector solar dryer.
The study involves a fundamental method for the design of the solar collector based on …