Cashew nut industry in India employs various unit operations for cashew nut processing with wide disparities in energy consumption to process. The dependency on energy can be reduced by end use efficiency enhancement along with shift over to renewable energy technologies. The intervention of energy intensive unit operations using renewable energy technologies was carried out. The unit operations involved in cashew nut processing was elucidated with analysis of energy consumption patterns. The energy estimation in unit operations namely- drying of raw cashew nut seed, steaming of dried cashew...