Performance assessment and modeling techniques for domestic solar dryers

Shimpy, M Kumar, A Kumar - Food Engineering Reviews, 2023 - Springer
Solar dryers have always been criticized for their lower performances. There are numerous
ways to define the performance of a solar drying system such as thermal performance …

Review on development, recent advancement and applications of various types of solar dryers

P Singh, MK Gaur - Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The demand for food is predicted to rise by 40–50% by 2030 due to the increasing
population. The post-harvest losses need to be reduced by using advanced food processing …

Techno-economic analysis of greenhouse solar dryer for drying agricultural produce

N Philip, S Duraipandi, A Sreekumar - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The numerous benefits of solar drying over open sun drying have resulted in extensive
research in the field of solar dryers. This research paper describes the development and …

Environmental and economic analysis of novel hybrid active greenhouse solar dryer with evacuated tube solar collector

P Singh, MK Gaur - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2021 - Elsevier
The novel hybrid active greenhouse solar dryer is developed in which a heat exchanger is
kept inside the dryer that also acts as a drying bed. The hot water from the evacuated tube …

Experimental ginger drying by a novel mixed-mode vertical solar dryer under partial and fully loaded conditions

A Malik, M Kumar - Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, 2024 - Elsevier
An innovative and compact mixed-mode vertical solar dryer (MVSD) with a circular solar
collector is developed and tested for ginger slices drying under partial and fully loaded …

Experimentation and optimization of phase change material integrated passive bifacial photovoltaic thermal greenhouse dryer

R Sehrawat, RK Sahdev, D Chhabra, S Tiwari - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A greenhouse dryer is the most economical and environmentally friendly device used to dry
various products like fruits, vegetables and meats. The operating hours and heat losses from …

Revolutionizing Cloud Computing: Evaluating the Influence of Blockchain and Consensus Algorithms

TR Saravanan, AR Rathinam, J Lenin… - … on Smart Generation …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combining Proof of Space (PoSpace) and Proof of Replication (PoRep) with interoperability
protocols and distributed file systems in cloud computing may change the game. This …

Natural convective greenhouse vermicelli drying: thermo-environ-econo-kinetic analyses

M Kumar, RK Sahdev, MA Tawfik… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents the performance of a low-cost, simple and sustainable natural
convection greenhouse dryer (NCGHD) for vermicelli drying. Vermicelli samples of diameter …

Comparison of groundnut drying in simple and modified natural convection greenhouse dryers: thermal, environmental and kinetic analyses

M Kumar, A Kumar, RK Sahdev, H Manchanda - Journal of Stored Products …, 2022 - Elsevier
Present work compares the performances of simple and modified greenhouse dryers for
groundnut drying. A latent heat storage unit (LHSU) filled with beeswax (PCM) was used to …

Heat transfer analysis of hybrid active greenhouse solar dryer attached with evacuated tube solar collector

P Singh, MK Gaur - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of the paper is to carry out the heat transfer analysis of novel designed hybrid
active greenhouse solar dryer (HAGSD) attached with water-in-tube type evacuated …