Drying kinetics and thermo-environmental analysis of a PV-operated tracking indirect solar dryer for tomato slices

• Abdallah Elshawadfy Elwakeel ,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: eutychedan@gmail.com (DEMW); Abdallah_elshawadfy@agr.aswu.edu.eg (AEE)

  Affiliation Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9360-051X

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• Mohsen A. Gameh,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Awad Ali Tayoush Oraiath,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Omar Al Mukhtar University, Al Bayda, Libya

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4980-3418

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• I. M. Elzein,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7949-209X

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• Ahmed S. Eissa,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agricultural Products Process Engineering Department, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Mohamed Metwally Mahmoud,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Energy Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2460-1850

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• Daniel Eutyche Mbadjoun Wapet ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: eutychedan@gmail.com (DEMW); Abdallah_elshawadfy@agr.aswu.edu.eg (AEE)

  Affiliation National Advanced School of Engineering, Universit´e de Yaound´e I, Yaound´e, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8682-5932

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• Mahmoud M. Hussein,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Energy Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt, Department of Communications Technology Engineering, Technical College, Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University, Baghdad, Iraq

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• Aml Abubakr Tantawy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Food Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

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• Mostafa B. Mostafa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt

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• Khaled A. Metwally

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Soil and Water Sciences Department, Faculty of Technology and Development, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3078-1181

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