Review of advanced drying techniques: a path to lower greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".