Inappropriate food conservation practices along with insufficient and inefficient storage
systems are often responsible for the deterioration in food quality of agricultural products …

The food industry accounts for approximately 30% of global energy consumption. In
addition, food-processing activities contribute almost 26% of total greenhouse gas …

Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) systems are sustainable applications that allows to produce
thermal and electrical energies simultaneously. In this work, a sustainable solar drying …

Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collectors can be applied in order to concurrently generation of
electrical and thermal energy. In the present study, a vertical hybrid PVT solar dryer has …

In this work, the effect of applying nano-enhanced absorber coating on the energetic and
exergetic performance of an unglazed vertical solar air heating system has been analyzed …

A solar cell is a converter that uses semiconductor material to convert photon energy
packets. The electrons located in the material's crystalline structure can escape from the …

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 …

In the current paper, different thermal energy storage unit-integrated photovoltaic thermal
(PVT) air collectors with and without nanoparticles have been designed, fabricated and …

An effective method to increase the heat transfer rate of fluid flowing in a solar air heater duct
(SAHD) is to apply artificial roughness geometry over the absorber plate. The heat …

In this survey, impact of combined utilization of copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticles both in
thermal energy storage unit and absorber coating (matt black paint) on the performance of a …