A Comprehensive Literature Review on The Solar Drying Systems
Keywords:
solar dryers, natural convection dryerAbstract
Since the cost of electricity is rising, and people are becoming more conscious of their desire to buy environmentally friendly items, solar dryers are quickly replacing traditional mechanical dryers. Experiments on drying thin layers of agaricus bisporus mushrooms have been conducted across three distinct types of inexpensive solar dryers: the "natural convection dryer (NCD), the forced convection dryer (FCD), and the heat pump integrated dryer (HPD)". In recent years, solar dryers have gained popularity as an eco-friendly replacement for traditional dryers that use fossil fuels. In contrast, solar dryers need a lot of time to dry anything since the sun doesn't always shine. This paper deals with the review of such research works which have been conducted to enhance the efficiency of the solar dryers.
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