Illuminating sustainability: a comprehensive review of the environmental life cycle and exergetic impacts of solar systems on the agri-food sector

B Hamidinasab, H Javadikia, F Hosseini-Fashami… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The develo** agri-food sector significantly boosts food production and plays a crucial role
in resolving the global food crisis. This development is valuable when accompanied by …

Energy, exergy, economic and environmental analyses of solar air heating systems with and without thermal energy storage for sustainable development: A systematic …

SK Pathak, VV Tyagi, K Chopra, B Kalidasan… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar air heating is the most widely used for crop drying, building and space heating
applications due to its technological maturity and economic viability. Still, solar air heaters …

Energy and exergoeconomic assessments of a renewable hybrid ERC/ORC integrated with solar dryer unit, PEM electrolyzer, and RO desalination subsystem

RE Dong, S Zhanguo, IB Mansir, AM Abed… - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this investigation, a zero-dimensional model of a renewable generation system
encompassing a solar-geothermal driven Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzer …

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
Develo** 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 …

Global advancement of solar drying technologies and its future prospects: A review

A Kamarulzaman, M Hasanuzzaman, NA Rahim - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Global energy demand continues to increase with the expansion of the economy activities
and sustainable development. Meanwhile, the world is suffering from pollution and harmful …

[HTML][HTML] Natural energy materials and storage systems for solar dryers: State of the art

BV Suresh, Y Shireesha, TS Kishore, G Dwivedi… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inappropriate food conservation practices along with insufficient and inefficient storage
systems are often responsible for the deterioration in food quality of agricultural products …

Multi-objective design optimization of solar air heater for food drying based on energy, exergy and improvement potential

A Benhamza, A Boubekri, A Atia, H El Ferouali… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar air heaters (SAHs) are commonly utilized in different applications due to their simple
structure and low setup cost. Optimizing operating parameters of the SAH is highly linked to …

A comprehensive review of advanced hybrid technologies that improvement the performance of solar dryers: Photovoltaic/thermal panels, solar collectors, energy …

A Khalil, AM Khaira, RH Abu-Shanab, M Abdelgaied - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar dryers are a well-known technology was utilize to dry various agricultural and food
products. There are some limitations to the use of open sun drying but these limitations can …

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 …

Heat transfer, exergoeconomic performance and sustainability impact of a novel CuO+ MgO+ GO/Water ternary nanofluid

S Mukherjee, V Poloju, PC Mishra - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper describes an experimental investigation of heat transport, exergy, economic,
sustainability, and environmental impact of a ternary nanofluid applied in a circular conduit …