Development of a low-cost wind-powered active solar dryer integrated with glycerol as thermal storage

MC Ndukwu, D Onyenwigwe, FI Abam, AB Eke… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper presents an active mix-mode wind-powered fan solar dryer (AWPFS) with a
passive mix-mode non-wind-powered solar dryer (PNWPS) evaluated with pre-treated …

Conventional and intermittent drying modeling of agricultural products: A review

AC Raimundini Aranha, RO Defendi… - Journal of Food …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this article is to present a discussion about recent technologies applied to
processes involving intermittent drying of agricultural products, in addition to verifying the …

Enhancing solar drying performance with heat storage technologies and nanoparticles integration: A clean energy production

AP Singh, S Tiwari, H Sinhmar, RK Sahdev… - Journal of Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Drying, aconventional and energy-intensive process, needs to transition from dependency
on high-grade energy sources like electricity to renewable energy in the food processing …

Assessing thermal and economic performance of solar dryers in sustainable strategies for bottle gourd and tomato preservation

SK Suraparaju, E Elangovan, G Muthuvairavan… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The traditional approach of open-sun drying is facing contemporary challenges arising from
the widespread adoption of energy-intensive methods and the quality of drying. In response …

Effects of pretreatments on quality attributes, moisture diffusivity, and activation energy of solar dried ivy gourd

E Elangovan, SK Natarajan - Journal of Food Process …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Effect of pretreatments and drying method on the ivy gourd and their drying
characteristics such as rate of drying, moisture diffusivity and activation energy are studied …

Effect of pretreatment and temperature on the drying kinetics and physicochemical and techno-functional characteristics of pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)

CJ Márquez-Cardozo, BL Caballero-Gutiérrez… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
The study was carried out to assess fresh slices and thermally pretreated pumpkin
(Cucurbita maxima) dried at temperatures of 55° C, 60° C, 65° C, and 70° C. The drying …

Thermal and electrical performance evaluation of single and double pass photovoltaic-thermal solar collector with cross-flow baffles and varying transparency: A …

R Biswas, PP Tripathy - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The present work deals with the development of a semi-transparent photovoltaic thermal (PV-
T) solar collector (STPVT) through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling using …

Drying Kinetics, Effective Moisture Diffusivity, and Activation Energy of Osmotic Pretreated Hot‐Air‐Dried Paneer Cubes

M Arulkumar, NKS Pandian, B Murugan… - Journal of Food …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Paneer is a heat‐acid‐coagulated dairy product, and it has a very low shelf life due to its
higher moisture content of about more than 50%(wb). Drying is the best option to reduce …

Detailed analysis of mass transfer in solar food dryer with different methods

M Das, E Alic, EK Akpinar - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the mass transfer, effective diffusion coefficient (D eff), activation energy (E a),
and drying efficiency values of the product dried in the solar food drying system were …

[HTML][HTML] Thermodynamic analysis of forced convective solar drying of cocoa with black coated sensible thermal storage material

CA Komolafe, MA Waheed, SI Kuye… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermodynamic analysis of a forced convective solar dryer integrated with black coated
sensible (firebrick) thermal storage material (STSM) for cocoa was investigated. The …