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SOLAR ENERGY
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages 2-13Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2017.05.066
Keywords
Drying; Solar dryer; Moisture content; Drying rates; Thin-layer drying; Crop properties; Psychrometrics; Air heating solar collector
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Drying reduces the moisture content of harvested crops thus slowing decay processes to enable longer term storage. Solar dryers contain the crop being dried, to enhance solar energy collection incurring lower crop losses than are associated with open-sun drying and recurrent costs than are inherent to uses of fossil-fuels for drying. The influences of key environmental, operational and design parameters for solar dryers are discussed including: (i) psychrometry of drying processes and ambient conditions, (ii) how initial crop properties are converted to final desired product attributes, (iii) feasibility of using powered components such as fans and (iv) air-heating solar collector selection. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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