Drying kinetics of some fruits

Drying Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1399-1418

  Kiranoudis, C T ^a   Tsami, E ^a   Maroulis, Z B ^a   Marinos Kouris, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Desorption isotherms; Drying constant; Empirical drying models; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); DRYING; ISOTHERMS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REACTION KINETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY;

FRUITS;

EID: 0031139586     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373939708917300     Document Type: Article

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