Importance of integrated CFD and product quality modeling of solar dryers for fruits and vegetables: A review

Improper handling of fruits and vegetables causes a significant postharvest loss. Among the preservation mechanisms, solar dryers are reported as sustainable suitable systems for fruit vegetable products. This paper summarizes recent advances, opportunities, challenges in drying Besides, review discusses commonly used mathematical models evaluation, design, optimization dryers. The factors that affect performance concerning time, rate, product quality attributes. Short uniform air velocity, temperature, moisture distribution chamber critical parameters required an efficient operation dryer. There is good prospect application modeling techniques such computational fluid dynamics (CFD) identifying optimum conditions dryer design can maintain product. CFD has been extensively studying airflow, heat, mass transfer processes optimizing different systems, similarly have applied to evaluate dried However, most studies did not include aspect evaluation or studies. To get best result, based should capacity predict addition characteristics.