Across-the-board over-view of solar dryers; an extensive scale renewable energy consideration for drying agricultural products
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Open sun drying, Renewable energy application, Solar Energy, Solar dryerAbstract
The agricultural product drying is a time-consuming and energy demanding practice. However, un-economical, and depletion of fossil fuels as well as environmental jeopardies fascinate the utilization of solar-energy as substitute source, predominantly in the emergent countries. Escalating environmental concerns prompted the use of renewable energy resources (RER’s) in the drying of agricultural foodstuffs. As a consequence, the solar-dryer (SD) is a reasonably effective approach for drying agricultural products in a highly uniform manner. However, over the last few decades, a considerable several researches have been established for the purpose of drying food and agriculture products using a SD. This review paper focuses on the substantial achievements devoted to the development of solar drying technology available today, as well as the state-of-the-art developments in solar drying. Furthermore, the comparison of advantages/disadvantages of In-direct type solar dryers (ITSDs) is also the part of this paper.
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