Solar drying of West Indian ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) rhizone using a wire basket dryer

Renewable Energy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 409-418

  Balladin, D A ^a   Chang Yen, I ^b   McGaw, D R ^b   Headley, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DISTILLATION; DRYING; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ODORS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

DRY WEIGHT; MOISTURE CONTENT; RHIZOME; SOLAR DRYING; STEAM DISTILLED SOLAR DRIED GINGER; WEST INDIAN GINGER; WIRE BASKET DRYER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 0030124356     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(95)00137-9     Document Type: Article

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