High temperature convective drying of wood chips with air and superheated steam

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2843-2858

  Johansson, Anders ^a   Fyhr, Christian ^a   Rasmuson, Anders ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; LIQUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STEAM; VAPORS; WATER; WOOD;

DRYING RATE; TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; WOOD CHIPS;

DRYING;

DRYING; STEAM; WOOD;

EID: 0031215151     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(96)00341-9     Document Type: Article

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