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Identification of barriers and drivers to implementation of solar drying technologies

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The requirement for energy is increasing day by day, and the available fossil reserves will be depleted shortly leading to various environmental hazards. Drying processes in industries, agriculture sector and house hold activities are being adopted using fossile fuel-based technologies. To reduce the GHG emission contributions, solar drying can be implemented in these sectors for various practical applications, such as product drying, crop and timber drying. A lot of work is going on in this field to improve the performance of solar drying systems, but still, ground implementation of such a system has not been encouraging so far. In this work, an attempt has been made to identify various barriers categorized as political barriers, economical barriers, technical or institutional barriers, and social and environmental barriers which can be taken into the consideration for better implementation of solar drying systems. Keeping this in view, this paper presents a clear insight into the reasons for the limited smallholder ownership of commercially available solar dryers. Also, several potential driving factors have been discussed to ensure the increased utilization of solar-thermal-based drying technology, contributing toward the sustainable development of society.

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Abbreviations

CFA:

Central financial assistance

CPSU:

Central public sector undertaking

EU:

European union

FiT:

Feed-in-tariffs

GSD:

Greenhouse solar dryer

KUSUM:

Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttam Mahabhiyan

MNRE:

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

NABARD:

National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development

GHG:

Greenhouse gas

LCCA:

Life cycle cost analysis

MRR:

Moisture removal rate

NISE:

National Institute of Solar Energy

PCM:

Phase change material

PV:

Photovoltaic

SC:

Solar collector

SPPS:

Solar PV pumping system

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Hamirpur, HP, 177005, India

    Varun Goel

  2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus, Vidya Vihar, Rajasthan, 333031, India

    Suvanjan Bhattacharyya

  3. Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran, Mohali, Punjab, India

    Rajneesh Kumar

  4. School of Energy Management, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K, 182320, India

    Sudhir Kumar Pathak & V. V. Tyagi

  5. Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    R. P. Saini

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VG contributed to conceptualization, methodology, writing–original draft preparation. SB contributed to methodology, and writing–original draft preparation. RK contributed to writing–reviewing and editing, formal analysis. SKP contributed to conceptualization, writing–reviewing and editing, VVT contributed to writing–reviewing and editing, supervision. RPS supervised the study.

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Goel, V., Bhattacharyya, S., Kumar, R. et al. Identification of barriers and drivers to implementation of solar drying technologies. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 2977–3000 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11631-x

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