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November 12, 2025Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy

Heterogeneous drying performance of a multi‐tier natural convection solar dryer

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CPChhotelal PrajapatiTSTanuja SheoreyCPChhotelal Prajapati

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Overview

An innovative solar dryer improves thermal efficiency and moisture removal in spices, indicating effectiveness across diverse conditions.

Key Points

  • To present a multi-tier solar dryer designed to enhance drying performance under heterogeneous conditions.
  • Developed a multi-tier cabinet solar dryer with stirring mechanism
  • Utilized flat plate solar collector and greenhouse effect
  • Compared drying efficiency with single cabinet dryer and open sun drying
  • Achieved maximum thermal efficiency of 15.66% (batch) and 11.53% (continuous)
  • Showed effective moisture diffusivity ranging from 2.204 × 10−10 to 7.6549 × 10−10 m²/s
  • Demonstrated a payback period of 0.68 years

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Prajapati et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692523d4c0ce034ddc355605https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.70169
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