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Solar-Driven Cold Storage Units to Reduce Food Waste

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This chapter presents the current situation of food wastage around the globe by comparing developed and developing countries. The research further focuses on India, presenting the state of food wastage and briefly discussing cold storage facilities and problems faced by the cold chain sector. Sustainable off-grid solar cooling technology measures that can be used for cold storage are briefly described. Finally, the chapter discusses how solar cooling technology could be distributed across India to reduce food wastage and, consequently, how that would benefit society and the environment.

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Abbreviations

AFP:

Advanced flat plate collector

AusAID:

Australian Agency for International Development

CPC:

Compound parabolic collector

CSIRO:

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization

ETC:

Evacuated tube collector

FAO:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FPC:

Flat plate collector

MOFPI:

Ministry of Food Processing Industries

PTC:

Parabolic trough concentrator

TERI:

The Energy and Resource Institute

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  1. Global Production Engineering in Solar Technology, TU Berlin, Pascalstrasse 8-9, Berlin, 10587, Germany

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Sraisth (2017). Solar-Driven Cold Storage Units to Reduce Food Waste. In: Sayigh, A. (eds) Mediterranean Green Buildings & Renewable Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30746-6_71

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