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Record W4410547696 · doi:10.1007/s43621-025-01217-6

Review of advanced drying techniques: a path to lower greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture

2025· article· en· W4410547696 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDiscover Sustainability · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicFood Drying and Modeling
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba
FundersUniversity of Winnipeg
KeywordsGreenhouse gasAgricultureEnvironmental scienceGreenhousePath (computing)Agricultural engineeringWaste managementAgronomyEngineeringComputer scienceEcologyBiology

Abstract

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Abstract The agricultural sector has one of the largest carbon footprints among all industries due to the extensive use of fossil fuels, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides. Over the past century, agricultural mechanization has remarkably increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, contributing to global warming and climate change. Among these gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most abundant. Drying is a crucial and widely used method for preserving agricultural products, with broad applications in the food industry. Recent advancements in drying technology offer promising alternatives that enhance product quality, reduce energy use, and mitigate GHG emissions, thus promoting environmental sustainability. This review explores some of the most promising drying techniques that will shape the future of agricultural processes. Efficient and innovative drying of agri-food products can be achieved by hybridizing conventional techniques like hot-air, microwave, infrared, fluid bed, continuum, vacuum, and refractance window drying with pre-treatments such as ultrasound (US), pulsed electric fields (PEF), blanching, and cold plasma (CP). The combined use of these modalities can decrease GHG emissions while producing high-quality, nutritionally rich products. Our synthesis of published information also proposes research and development strategies to mitigate GHGs during the drying process.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.814
Threshold uncertainty score0.226

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it