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Inadequate preservation of food products result in 30 % loss due to spoilage. Drying is heat and mass transfer between the wet product and the heated air flow. Ideally a solar dryer should be designed and operated to dry the product uniformly and efficiently from an initial as-harvested moisture-content to a final safe storage moisture content (Fig. 9.1).
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Norton, B. (2014). Solar Drying. In: Harnessing Solar Heat. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7275-5_9
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