A novel thin-layer model for crop drying

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 659-669

  Nuh, D N ^a   Brinkworth, B J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop drying; Drying equation

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DRYING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CROP DRYING; DRYING EQUATION; FALLING RATE PERIOD; SOYA BEANS;

FOOD PROCESSING;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0031147696     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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