Solar drying
Practical Action
Information
• A Review of Solar Food Drying by Barbara Kerr
http://www.solarcooking.org/dryingreview.htm
• Solar drying equipment. FAO - Labour-saving technologies
http://www.fao.org/sd/teca/tools/lst/LSTP19_en.html
• An Introduction to Solar Energy Applications for Agriculture
http://www.powernaturally.org/publications/agguide.pdf
• HEDON Household Energy Network
Construction and Use of a Simple Solar Drier to Preserve Food for Off Season
Further reading
• Drying of foods, Practical Action Technical Brief
• Small-scale drying technologies, Practical Action Technical Brief
• Drying of Chillies, Practical Action Technical Brief
• Drying of Apricots, Practical Action Technical Briefs
• Drying Food For Profit: A Guide for Small Business, Barrie Axtell, 2002, Practical Action
Publishing ISBN 1 85339520 X
• Setting up a Food Drying Business: A Step-by-step Guide, Fabrice Thuillier, 2002,
Practical Action Publishing, ISBN 1 85339 498 X
• Drying Foodstuffs, Jean Françoia Rozis, 1997, Backuys Publishers
• Producing Solar Dried Fruit and Vegetables for Small-scale Enterprise Development. Natural
Resource Institute, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB. 1996
• Try Drying It! Case studies in the dissemination of tray drying technology. IT
Publishing.1991
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This document was produced by Tony Swetman for Practical Action, November
2007.
Practical Action is a development charity with a difference. We know the simplest ideas can have the
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