Solar drying: an alternative to fish drying - a review

Energy is one of the main concerns for the future development of any nation. It is by far the largest merchandise in the world and an enormous amount of it is extracted, distributed, converted and consumed in our global society daily .One major problem regarding agricultural produce is related to the product storage in the harvesting season, and identifying an alternative to marketing fresh produce. A useful option is to prevent wastage of produce by drying, using solar energy. In this regard, solar dryer for domestic as welI as industrial usage could be an effective alternative of saving conventional energy. Utilization of solar thermal energy through solar dryer is relatively in a nascent state in our country. This paper gives a description of the efforts made under several researches to design and develop some types of solar dryers