Life cycle and techno-economic assessment of a solar-biogas hybrid dryer for banana drying

• Oscar Shigella,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials Energy Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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• Aldé Belgard Tchicaya Loemba,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials Energy Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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• John Yawe,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials Energy Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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• Baraka Kichonge,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Materials Energy Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Arusha Technical College (ATC), Arusha, Tanzania

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• Mwema Felix Mwema

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mwema.felix@nm-aist.ac.tz, mwema.felix@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Materials Energy Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1084-2497

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