Uncertain price rise and rapid depletion of fossil fuels accelerated the development of
renewable energy sources in the form of alternative power sources. Solar is an abundant …

Drying for agricultural and marine products are one of the most attractive and cost-effective
application of solar energy. Numerous types of solar dryers have been designed and …

Background/objectives Solar dryer has reached a remarkable level due to its tremendous
contribution towards the saving spoilage of the food, vegetables, spices and ingredients …

This paper presents an experimental investigation on a natural convection indirect mode
solar dryer with phase change material (PCM) for drying of banana slices. The drying system …

The paper describes the techno-economic of solar drying system (SDS) with water based
solar collector in Malaysia. In Malaysia, SDS has been great potential to be used in drying …

The common practice in the hybrid solar dryers which are backed up with thermal source is
to exhaust the flue gas to the ambient. This flue gases are still hot and carry considerable …

This work presents the results of an experimental study and thermodynamic study of solar
drying of tomatoes of the KAWA type, where the drying experiments was carried out in a …

A solar dryer integrated with a simple biomass burner was designed and constructed with
locally available materials to dry maize. The dryer was composed of solar collector, drying …

Drying of Cashew nut to remove testa is one of the most energy-intensive processes of
cashew nut process industry. For this reason a hybrid dryer consisting of a solar flat plate …

The influence of a mixed forced convection solar dryer with thermal storage, on the quality of
cocoa beans is studied. This study has as reference the quality level recommended by the …