Solar Drying Technology: Concept, Design, Testing, Modeling, Economics, and Environment

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Fundamental Concepts of Drying  (S. Vijayan, T. V. Arjunan, Anil Kumar)....Pages 3-38
 Solar Drying Systems  (Jan Banout)....Pages 39-67
 Characteristics of Different Systems for the Solar Drying of Crops  (Brian Norton)....Pages 69-88
 Fundamental Mathematical Relations of Solar Drying Systems  (Stamatios Babalis, Elias Papanicolaou, Vassilios Belessiotis)....Pages 89-175
 Advancement in Greenhouse Drying System  (Anil Kumar, Harsh Deep, Om Prakash, O. V. Ekechukwu)....Pages 177-196
Front Matter ....Pages 197-197
 Design Analysis and Studies on Some Solar Drying Systems  (Vinod Kumar Sharma, Cosmas Ngozichukwu Anyanwu)....Pages 199-213
 Thermal Testing Methods for Solar Dryers  (Shobhana Singh)....Pages 215-238
 Exergy Analysis of Solar Dryers  (Anil Kumar, Saurabh Ranjan, Om Prakash, Ashish Shukla)....Pages 239-262
Front Matter ....Pages 263-263
 Mathematical Modeling of Solar Drying Systems  (Rajendra C. Patil, Rupesh R. Gawande)....Pages 265-316
 Drying Kinetics in Solar Drying  (Raquel de Pinho Ferreira Guiné, Maria João Barroca)....Pages 317-355
 Mathematical and Computational Modeling Simulation of Solar Drying Systems  (Rebecca Rose Milczarek, Fatima Sierre Alleyne)....Pages 357-379
 Numerical Techniques for Evaluating the Performance of Solar Drying Systems  (Karunesh Kant, Atul Sharma, Amritanshu Shukla)....Pages 381-402
 Simulation of Food Solar Drying  (Inês N. Ramos, Teresa R. S. Brandão, Cristina L. M. Silva)....Pages 403-417
 Applications of Soft Computing in Solar Drying Systems  (Om Prakash, Saurabh Ranjan, Anil Kumar, P. P. Tripathy)....Pages 419-438
Front Matter ....Pages 439-439
 Economics of Solar Drying  (Deepali Atheaya)....Pages 441-462
 Techno-economic Analysis of Solar Dryers  (S. Selvanayaki, K. Sampathkumar)....Pages 463-493
 Economic Analysis of Various Developed Solar Dryers  (Om Prakash, Saurabh Ranjan, Anil Kumar, Ravi Gupta)....Pages 495-513
 Economic Analysis of Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal (PV-T) Integrated Indirect-Type Solar Dryer  (Sujata Nayak, Kapil Narwal)....Pages 515-528
 Energy Analysis of the Direct and Indirect Solar Drying System  (Om Prakash, Anil Kumar, Prashant Singh Chauhan, Daniel I. Onwude)....Pages 529-542
Front Matter ....Pages 543-543
 Energy Conservation Through Recirculation of Hot Air in Solar Dryer  (Kamaruddin Abdullah)....Pages 545-577
 Development and Performance Study of Solar Air Heater for Solar Drying Applications  (Partha Pratim Dutta, Anil Kumar)....Pages 579-601
 Thermal Energy Storage in Solar Dryer  (Ajay Kumar Kaviti, Harsh Deep)....Pages 603-617
 Development of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for Solar Drying Systems  (Anand Jain, Anil Kumar, A. Shukla, Atul Sharma)....Pages 619-633