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Drying of onion shreds in corrugated electric and solar-conduction dryers: Techno-economic evaluation and quality degradation kinetics

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Pages 1859-1877 | Received 24 Nov 2022, Accepted 30 Mar 2023, Published online: 21 Apr 2023

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