Solar Drying Technology

Part I. Concept of Solar Drying

1. Fundamental Concepts of Drying
S. Vijayan, T. V. Arjunan, Anil Kumar

2. Solar Drying Systems
Jan Banout

3. Characteristics of Different Systems for the Solar Drying of Crops
Brian Norton

4. Fundamental Mathematical Relations of Solar Drying Systems
Stamatios Babalis, Elias Papanicolaou, Vassilios Belessiotis

5. Advancement in Greenhouse Drying System
Anil Kumar, Harsh Deep, Om Prakash, O. V. Ekechukwu

Part II. Design and Testing of Solar Drying Systems

6. Design Analysis and Studies on Some Solar Drying Systems
Vinod Kumar Sharma, Cosmas Ngozichukwu Anyanwu

7. Thermal Testing Methods for Solar Dryers
Shobhana Singh

8. Exergy Analysis of Solar Dryers
Anil Kumar, Saurabh Ranjan, Om Prakash, Ashish Shukla

Part III. Modeling of Solar Drying Systems

9. Mathematical Modeling of Solar Drying Systems
Rajendra C. Patil, Rupesh R. Gawande

10. Drying Kinetics in Solar Drying
Raquel Pinho Ferreira Guiné, Maria João Barroca

11. Mathematical and Computational Modeling Simulation of Solar Drying Systems
Rebecca Rose Milczarek, Fatima Sierre Alleyne

12. Numerical Techniques for Evaluating the Performance of Solar Drying Systems
Karunesh Kant, Atul Sharma, Amritanshu Shukla

13. Simulation of Food Solar Drying
Inês N. Ramos, Teresa R. S. Brandão, Cristina L. M. Silva

14. Applications of Soft Computing in Solar Drying Systems
Om Prakash, Saurabh Ranjan, Anil Kumar, P. P. Tripathy

Part IV. Environomical Impact of Solar Drying Systems

15. Economics of Solar Drying
Deepali Atheaya

16. Techno-economic Analysis of Solar Dryers
S. Selvanayaki, K. Sampathkumar

17. Economic Analysis of Various Developed Solar Dryers
Om Prakash, Saurabh Ranjan, Anil Kumar, Ravi Gupta

18. Economic Analysis of Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal (PV-T) Integrated Indirect-Type Solar Dryer
Sujata Nayak, Kapil Narwal

19. Energy Analysis of the Direct and Indirect Solar Drying System
Om Prakash, Anil Kumar, Prashant Singh Chauhan, Daniel I. Onwude

Part V. Innovations in Solar Drying

20. Energy Conservation Through Recirculation of Hot Air in Solar Dryer
Kamaruddin Abdullah

21. Development and Performance Study of Solar Air Heater for Solar Drying Applications
Partha Pratim Dutta, Anil Kumar

22. Thermal Energy Storage in Solar Dryer
Ajay Kumar Kaviti, Harsh Deep

23. Development of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Solar Drying Systems
Anand Jain, Anil Kumar, A. Shukla, Atul Sharma

Keywords: Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Technology, Energy Harvesting