Air drying of vegetables: Evaluation of mass transfer coefficient

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-62

  Markowski, Marek ^a  

^a UNIV OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAUCUS CAROTA;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DRYING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION;

AIR DRYING; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NEUMAN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

FOOD PROCESSING;

EID: 0031247671     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0260-8774(97)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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