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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Improving Mechanical Coffee Drying with Recycled Insulating Materials: A Thermal Efficiency and Economic Feasibility Analysis.

Valentina Cruz-Ospina, Eduardo Duque-Dussán, Juan R Sanz-Uribe

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Valentina Cruz-OspinaPostharvest Discipline, National Coffee Research Center-Cenicafé, Km 4. Antígua Vía Chinchiná-Manizales, Manizales 170009, Colombia.ORCID 0009-0008-7897-6632
Eduardo Duque-DussánPostharvest Discipline, National Coffee Research Center-Cenicafé, Km 4. Antígua Vía Chinchiná-Manizales, Manizales 170009, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-8045-6088
Juan R Sanz-UribePostharvest Discipline, National Coffee Research Center-Cenicafé, Km 4. Antígua Vía Chinchiná-Manizales, Manizales 170009, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0001-9875-9426

Funding

National Coffee Growers Federation of Colombia: National Coffee Research Center of Colombia - Cenicafé POS103008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanical coffee drying is an energy-intensive stage of postharvest processing that directly affects product quality and production costs. This study evaluated the technical and economic feasibility of using expanded polystyrene (EPS) as a thermal insulation material to improve the performance of a mechanical coffee dryer and to demonstrate its potential for sustainable reuse. Experiments were conducted using a total of 210 kg of wet parchment coffee (

Indexed as

circular economyCoffea arabica L.energy lossesexpanded polystyreneforced convectionheat transfermass transfer

Identifiers

PMID41596965
PMCPMC12841568

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