A review on recent developments in thermal performance enhancement methods of flat plate solar air collector

E Vengadesan, R Senthil - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent studies on thermal performance enhancement of the flat plate solar air collectors
are critically reviewed primarily regarding the absorber surface modifications, multiple …

Drying kinetics of food materials in infrared radiation drying: A review

DSA Delfiya, K Prashob, S Murali… - Journal of Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, many infrared (IR) and IR‐assisted drying methods such as IR‐hot air, IR‐
vacuum, IR‐microwave, and vibration aided IR‐dryer have been reported for drying of food …

Electricity production based forecasting of greenhouse gas emissions in Turkey with deep learning, support vector machine and artificial neural network algorithms

MS Bakay, Ü Ağbulut - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Today, the world's primary energy demand has been met by the burning of fossil-based fuels
at a rate of 85%. This dominant use of fossil-based fuels has led to an accelerating increase …

Experimental and numerical analysis of a grooved hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar drying system

AD Tuncer, A Khanlari, F Afshari, A Sözen… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) systems are sustainable applications that allows to produce
thermal and electrical energies simultaneously. In this work, a sustainable solar drying …

Experimental and numerical study on a novel fanless air-to-air solar thermoelectric refrigerator equipped with boosted heat exchanger

F Afshari, E Mandev, B Muratçobanoğlu, AF Yetim… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Peltier cooling systems are generally small, portable and simple in operating principle
compared to conventional vapor compression cooling systems. For these reasons, Peltier …

Experimental analysis of CPV/T solar dryer with nano-enhanced PCM and prediction of drying parameters using ANN and SVM algorithms

MO Karaağaç, A Ergün, Ü Ağbulut, AE Gürel, I Ceylan - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a concentrated photovoltaic-thermal solar dryer (CPV/TSD) using nano-
enhanced PCM (Al 2 O 3-Paraffin wax) is experimentally studied. A comprehensive …

Enhancing the performance of a greenhouse dryer with natural dolomite powder-embedded latent heat thermal energy storage unit and air-to-air heat recovery system

F Selimefendigil, C Şirin - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Greenhouse drying systems (GDSs) are grouped in direct-type solar dryers and are widely
utilised because of their easy applicability, high product drying capacity and cost …

Energy-exergy and sustainability analysis of a PV-driven quadruple-flow solar drying system

A Khanlari, A Sözen, F Afshari, AD Tuncer - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar energy as a clean energy source is widely investigated to find out the effective
mechanisms to meet a large part of energy demand in the near future. In the present …

Analysis of a novel V-grooved double pass photovoltaic thermal solar dryer including thermal energy storage

C Yüksel, M Öztürk, E Çiftçi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
As to a sustainable future, the available storage of foods is of great importance since they
are the most basic component for the source of life. The requirement that foods be …

Evacuated tube solar and sun drying of beetroot slices: Comparative assessment of thermal performance, drying kinetics, and quality analysis

S Malakar, M Alam, VK Arora - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this research work, the thermal performance of an evacuated tube solar dryer (ETSD) was
investigated at no-load and with load of beetroot slices for drying. The experiments were …