Performance evaluation and finite element modeling of heat, mass, and fluid flow inside a hybrid solar dryer during drying of paddy

Performance evaluation and finite element modeling of heat, mass, and fluid flow inside a hybrid solar dryer during drying of paddy grains Aprajeeta Jha* and P. P. Tripathy 1 Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India Introduction: A comprehensive assessment of a photovoltaic (PV) integrated hybrid solar dryer (HSD) for drying paddy was undertaken in the present investigation. Performance evaluation of the system along...