Conjugate heat and mass transfer process within porous media with dielectric cores in microwave freeze drying

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2921-2928

  Wu, Hongwei ^a,b   Tao, Zhi ^a   Chen, Guohua ^b   Deng, Hongwu ^a   Xu, Guoqiang ^a   Ding, Shuiting ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Loss factor; Modelling; Sublimation front

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MICROWAVES; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONJUGATE HEAT; DIELECTRIC CORES; FREEZE DRYING PROCESS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

FREEZE DRYING; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MICROWAVE DRYING; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 3042525417     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.04.015     Document Type: Article

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