Modeling cereal grain drying with variable diffusivity

Cereal Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 842-845

  Tolaba, Marcela P ^a   Aguerre, Roberto J ^b   Suárez, Constantino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRYING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MOLECULES;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CEREAL GRAINS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; ENERGY; GRAIN DRYING; ROUGH RICE; THIN LAYER DRYING; VARIABLE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; VARIABLE DIFFUSIVITY; WATER MOLECULE;

DIFFUSION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030827385     PISSN: 00090352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/CCHEM.1997.74.6.842     Document Type: Article

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