Transport mechanisms of moisture during air drying processes

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

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-40

  Khraisheh, M A M ^b   Cooper, T J R ^b   Magee, T R A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Air drying; Diffusion; Fick's law; Heat transfer resistances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008639803     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/096030897531342     Document Type: Article

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