A critical review on drying of food materials: recent progress and key challenges

S Bhattacharjee, P Mohanty, JK Sahu… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
One important problem that is closely related to developing and refining novel drying
techniques is the deterioration of aromatic herbs, fruits, and vegetables during the drying …

Solar drying Technologies: A review and future research directions with a focus on agroindustrial applications in medium and large scale

NM Ortiz-Rodríguez, M Condorí, G Durán… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The food industry accounts for approximately 30% of global energy consumption. In
addition, food-processing activities contribute almost 26% of total greenhouse gas …

A 50 year review of basic and applied research in compound parabolic concentrating solar thermal collector for domestic and industrial applications

V Pranesh, R Velraj, S Christopher, V Kumaresan - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In the recent years, compound parabolic concentrating (CPC) collector draws the attention of
researchers and industrial developers towards meeting the downstream requirement of …

Drying of tomatoes and tomato processing waste: a critical review of the quality aspects

NS Bhatkar, SS Shirkole, AS Mujumdar… - Drying …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Tomatoes are a valuable highly perishable agricultural product that are dried on a large
scale for extending shelf life. The drying of both tomatoes and tomato processing waste can …

A review study on recent advances in solar drying: Mechanisms, challenges and perspectives

Y Yao, YX Pang, S Manickam, E Lester, T Wu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drying is important in many processes for material preservation, operation optimisation, and
easy handling. Various dryers have been developed to ensure controllable drying …

A comparison of the drying kinetics, energy consumption and colour quality of drying medicinal leaves in direct-solar dryer with different colours of collector cover

MC Ndukwu, G Akpan, AN Okeahialam, JD Umoh… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In some countries, Neem and Bitter leaves are often offered as dried medicinal leaves and
one of the appealing aspects to consumers is that they retain their original colour after …

Technical and economic analysis of a novel low-cost concentrated medium-temperature solar collector

Y Bhusal, A Hassanzadeh, L Jiang, R Winston - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this manuscript, performance of a novel concentrated solar thermal collector with
evacuated tube is studied. The focus is the optimization of cost and performance in respect …

Coupled optical-thermal modeling, design and experimental testing of a novel medium-temperature solar thermal collector with pentagon absorber

A Hassanzadeh, L Jiang, R Winston - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The simulation, prototyping and testing of novel medium-temperature solar collector is
elaborated in this paper. First, selection of higher concentration reflector (1.4×) with …

[PDF][PDF] Conventional and advanced food-drying technology: A current review

R Indiarto, AH Asyifaa, FCA Adiningsih… - Int. J. Sci. Technol …, 2021 - academia.edu
Food drying techniques have long been applied since ancient times in conventional ways,
such as drying in the sun or drying them. Currently, drying methods have been developed …

[HTML][HTML] Una revisión de los últimos avances de los colectores solares térmicos aplicados en la industria

W Carrión-Chamba, W Murillo-Torres… - … . Revista de Ciencia …, 2022 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
El consumo energético asociado al sector de la industria representa el 38% de la demanda
de energía a nivel global, siendo un aspecto importante que marca el desarrollo de un país …