Horticulture produce have very high-water content, sometimes more than 90% by volume. Several of them are oily and hard. Thesehorticulture produce have very high count of free radicals and are medicinal in nature. Usually, these are grown in scattered places inrural areas on sidelines of regular agriculture, far from the market place. Their price slumps during seasons and increase exponentiallyafter it, due to short lifetime and absence of good transportation network, cost-effective proper preservation technology as well asspecialized transportation vehicles. In this paper, Small state of the art family size solar dryer of 5 kg per day is designed to dry theseproduces in a single day and validated in real time experiments. The dryer is capable of maintaining desired temperature range toextended period even after sunshine, with the help of High Heat Capacity Material and Phase Change Material. Humidity removalmechanism is also introduced to reduce drying time by at least two hours.
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