A review on indirect type solar dryers for agricultural crops–Dryer setup, its performance, energy storage and important highlights

AB Lingayat, VP Chandramohan, VRK Raju, V Meda - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Inadequate preservation techniques and poor storage provisions lead to deterioration in the
quality of agricultural products. Advanced processing techniques have been used to reduce …

Review on phase change materials for solar energy storage applications

R Naveenkumar, M Ravichandran… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The energy storage application plays a vital role in the utilization of the solar energy
technologies. There are various types of the energy storage applications are available in the …

Performance augmentation and machine learning-based modeling of wavy corrugated solar air collector embedded with thermal energy storage: support vector …

ME Zayed, AE Kabeel, B Shboul, WM Ashraf… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
At present, artificial intelligence methods have been effectively utilized for predicting the
complex performance of storage-based solar thermal technologies for cooling/heating …

Energy and exergy analyses of drying medicinal herb in a novel forced convection solar dryer integrated with SHSM and PCM

AK Bhardwaj, R Kumar, S Kumar, B Goel… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This article examined the performance of a low cost, economically viable and a novel forced
convection solar drying system. To control the thermal fluctuations during the day-night …

Recent progress on solar cabinet dryers for agricultural products equipped with energy storage using phase change materials

MSB Jahromi, V Kalantar, HS Akhijahani… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy can be used directly and indirectly in thermal processes such as solar dryers.
Solar dryers have a high potential to dry wet samples, especially agricultural products with …

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 …

CFD modeling and evaluation the performance of a solar cabinet dryer equipped with evacuated tube solar collector and thermal storage system

M Iranmanesh, HS Akhijahani, MSB Jahromi - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the performance of a solar cabinet drying system equipped with a
heat pipe evacuated tube solar collector (ETSC) and thermal storage system with …

Evaluation of performance, energy, and exergy analysis of a solar parabolic dish collector connected to a dryer with nanofluid and PCM

MSB Jahromi, V Kalantar… - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate the utilization of an indirect solar drying system
coupled with a solar parabolic dish collector for drying the medicinal plant Teucrium polium …

Energy, exergy, economic and environmental analysis of phase change material based solar dryer (PCMSD)

B Brahma, AK Shukla, DC Baruah - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the efficacy of a novel Phase Change Material Solar Dryer (PCMSD)
using paraffin wax, stearic acid, and acetamide for drying tomatoes, comparing results with …

Life cycle assessment, energy and exergy analysis in an indirect cabinet solar dryer equipped with phase change materials

P Mirzaee, P Salami, HS Akhijahani, S Zareei - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effect of using phase change materials (PCMs) in a cabinet dryer
on thermal and drying efficiency. Three positions related to PCM inside the cabinet were …