A Review on Solar Dehydration System with Energy Storing Material

Abstract

Solar energy is one of the most important renewable energy which is freely available energy from the sun. As this energy is freely available there is growth for solar industries on global level. But the main challenge faced by the solar industries is the efficiency of the solar application. Solar Dehydration system or dryer is one the new emerging application in solar field. This system is used to remove moisture content from various agricultural products over conventional sun drying method. Use of axillary heating source is must to use solar dryer after the sunset. Therefore we can use phase change materials (PCM) to store the heat energy which can be used after sunset. For any solar application the overall performance or efficiency is approximately equal to 15-18%. Therefore to increase the efficiency by maximum utilization of the solar energy we can adopt the latest technologies like internet of things (IoT) software solution. To enhance the efficiency we can use the new technologies like internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), etc. Smart sensors are used to monitor the different parameters like temperature, humidity, etc. which will help to get the data when the system is mounted at remote location and the data can be viewed at any location by the user.