Characteristic drying curves of cocoa beans

Drying Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2387-2396

  Daud, Wan Ramli Wan ^a   Talib, Meor Zainal Meor ^a   Ibrahim, Mahamad Hakimi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Characteristic Drying Curves; Cocoa Beans; Drying Kinetics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AIR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; POLYNOMIALS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY; WEIGHING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR VELOCITY; CHARACTERISTIC DRYING CURVES; COCOA BEANS; PENETRATION FALLING RATE; WEIGHT LOSS;

DRYING;

EID: 0030287237     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373939608917211     Document Type: Article

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