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 …

PVT air collector integrated greenhouse dryers

S Tiwari, S Agrawal, GN Tiwari - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of cleaner and renewable energy sources are necessary so that fossil fuel
dependency and global warming can be reduced. Present communication is an attempt to …

Sustainable development using renewable energy technology

PA Østergaard, N Duic, Y Noorollahi, H Mikulcic… - Renewable energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This article present a review of the status of research within the exploitation of renewable
energy sources with a focus on the status of technologies exploiting renewable energy …

Sustainability and 4E analysis of novel solar photovoltaic-thermal solar dryer under forced and natural convection drying

A Gupta, B Das, A Biswas, JD Mondol - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing a sustainable photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) solar drying system is essential to
maintain zero carbon emission in the drying process. This work represents the drying of star …

[HTML][HTML] Electrical efficiency of the photovoltaic/thermal collectors cooled by nanofluids: Machine learning simulation and optimization by evolutionary algorithm

Y Cao, E Kamrani, S Mirzaei, A Khandakar, B Vaferi - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) are high-tech devices to transform solar radiation into
electrical and thermal energies. Nano-coolants are recently considered to enhance the …

A detailed thermal-electrical model of three photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) hybrid air collectors and photovoltaic (PV) module: Comparative study under Algiers climatic …

MEA Slimani, M Amirat, I Kurucz, S Bahria… - Energy conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The thermal photovoltaic hybrid collector is a genuine cogeneration technology; it can
produce electricity and heat simultaneously. In this paper, a comparative study is presented …

Parameter estimation of photovoltaic modules using a hybrid flower pollination algorithm

S Xu, Y Wang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Building highly accurate model for solar cells and photovoltaic (PV) modules based on
experimental data is vital for the simulation, evaluation, control, and optimization of PV …

Energy, exergy and environmental impact analysis on the novel indirect solar dryer with fins inserted phase change material

S Madhankumar, K Viswanathan, W Wu - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar energy is a widely used green energy resource that is used for drying processes.
Through this assessment, the performance of an Indirect Solar Dryer (ISD) with three …

Development and testing of novel photovoltaic-thermal collector-based solar dryer for green tea drying application

A Gupta, A Biswas, B Das, BV Reddy - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A sustainable solar based PVT tea drying system has been developed to minimize the
dependency on the non-renewable commercial tea drying system. In this work, the effect of …

Performance evaluation of hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PVT) solar dryer for drying of cassava

E Veeramanipriya, ARU Sundari - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
A prototype hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PV–T) solar dryer aided with Evacuated Tube
Collector (ETC) is presented for drying of cassava slices under the meteorological …