Cyclic air temperature drying of guava pieces: Effects on moisture and ascorbic acid contents

Food and Bioproducts Processing: Transactions of the Institution of of Chemical Engineers, Part C

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 72-78

  Chua, Kian Jon ^b   Chou, S K ^b   Ho, J C ^b   Mujumdar, A S ^a   Hawlader, M N A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cosine wave profile; Equivalent temperature; Heat pump; Square wave profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003064010     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/096030800532761     Document Type: Article

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