The need to put in place alternative energy policies stems from the awareness that fossil
fuels are exhaustible and harmful to the environment. For this reason, during the last …

Solar energy systems (SESs) are considered as one of the most important alternatives to
conventional fossil fuels, due to its ability to convert solar energy directly into heat and …

A developed indirect solar dryer is built and operated to dry sweet potato cubes. Since,
numerous instruments have gathered experimental data to comprehensively evaluate the …

This paper presents a review of exergy analysis of solar thermal collectors and processes. It
includes not only various types of solar collectors, but also various applications of solar …

Solar energy is an endless and environmentally benign renewable energy source. Among
all the forms of solar thermal energy systems, solar air heater is the major system which is …

This article aims to present a review of the literature dealing with improvement methods,
design configurations and applications of different types of solar air heaters (SAHs). Different …

This manuscript presents the performance studies on a forced convection solar dryer
integrated with a paraffin wax-based shell and tube latent heat storage unit. The solar dryer …

In the present study three different types of neural models: multi-layer perceptron (MLP),
generalized regression neural network (GRNN) and radial basis function (RBF) has been …

The use of solar energy in recent years had reached a remarkable edge. The continuous
research for an alternative power source due to the perceived scarcity of fuel fossils is its …

Solar air heaters are used to heat air for drying and space heating applications, however,
the low heat transfer between air and absorber plate accounts for its low efficiency. In this …