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 …

Progress and latest developments of evacuated tube solar collectors

MA Sabiha, R Saidur, S Mekhilef, O Mahian - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2015 - Elsevier
Solar energy is the most available, environmental friendly energy source and renewable to
sustain the growing energy demand. Solar energy is captured by solar collectors and an …

Thermal behavior of indirect solar dryer: Nocturnal usage of solar air collector with PCM

A El Khadraoui, S Bouadila, S Kooli, A Farhat… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
An indirect type forced convection solar dryer using Phase Change Material (PCM) was
designed, constructed and experimentally investigated. The dryer consists of a solar air …

Thermo-enviroeconomic assessment of a solar dryer of two various commodities

SW Sharshir, A Joseph, MM Elsayad, MH Hamed… - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The energy, environmental, and health issues necessitate the development of renewable
energy-based food processing, especially solar drying. However, the low efficiency and high …

A comprehensive analysis on advances in application of solar collectors considering design, process and working fluid parameters for solar to thermal conversion

SK Verma, NK Gupta, D Rakshit - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Presented review is an attempt to analyze progressive enhancement in performance of solar
collectors in view of changes in design of collector components, changes and modifications …

A review of latest developments, progress, and applications of heat pipe solar collectors

A Shafieian, M Khiadani, A Nosrati - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Among all the available solutions to the current high energy demand and consequent
economic and environmental problems, solar energy, without any doubt, is one of the most …

A novel active-mode indirect solar dryer for agricultural products: Experimental evaluation and economic feasibility

S Singh, RS Gill, VS Hans, M Singh - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This article presents a novel active-mode indirect solar dryer consisting of highly efficiency
through-flow evacuated tube collector for air heating. A DC fan powered with solar …

Recent advances on the evacuated tube solar collector scrutinizing latest innovations in thermal performance improvement involving economic and environmental …

SM Tabarhoseini, M Sheikholeslami, Z Said - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy plays the most pivotal role in providing energy demand among all renewable
energy resources in today's world. Hence, significant advances are being made to harness …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of solar air collector technologies: Performance evaluation, structure design and application analysis

J Zhang, T Zhu - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022 - Elsevier
A solar air collector (SAC) is a main device of a solar-thermal air system, which can absorb
solar radiation and transfer the absorbed thermal energy to the air. This paper presents a …

Experimental investigation of the performance of a mixed-mode solar dryer with thermal energy storage

E Baniasadi, S Ranjbar, O Boostanipour - Renewable energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, the performance of a forced convection mixed-mode solar dryer with thermal
energy storage is experimentally analyzed. The main goal was to develop an efficient and …