Determination of temperature dependent drying parameters for potato cylinders and slices during solar drying

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2941-2948

  Tripathy, P P ^a   Kumar, Subodh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Drying constant; Drying kinetic curve; Lag factor; Mixed mode solar dryer; Thin layer drying equation

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CORRELATION METHODS; CURING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEWATERING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOLAR DRYERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CONVECTION DRYING; DRYING BEHAVIOR; DRYING CHAMBERS; DRYING CONSTANT; DRYING CONSTANTS; DRYING KINETIC; DRYING KINETIC CURVE; DRYING PARAMETERS; FICK'S LAW OF DIFFUSION; FLAT-PLATE SOLAR COLLECTORS; LABORATORY SCALE; LAG FACTOR; LINEAR CORRELATIONS; MIXED MODES; MIXED-MODE SOLAR DRYER; MOISTURE CONTENTS; SAMPLE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR DRYING; STATISTICAL ERROR ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT; THIN-LAYER DRYING; THIN-LAYER DRYING EQUATION; VARIABLE PARAMETERS;

DRYING;

EID: 52949121414     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2008.06.036     Document Type: Article

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