A simple moisture transfer model for drying of sliced foods

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 748-752

  Yesilata, Bülent ^a   Aktacir, Mehmet Azmi ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Drying kinetics; Effective diffusion coefficient; Mathematical model; Moisture transfer; Slab

Indexed keywords

CURING; DEWATERING; DIFFUSION; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DRYING CURVES; DRYING KINETICS; DRYING PROCESSES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION CO-EFFICIENTS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; INTERNAL RESISTANCES; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONS; MOISTURE DEPLETIONS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MOISTURE TRANSFER MODELS; MOISTURE TRANSFERS; NEW MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PERFECT MATCHES; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; RED PEPPERS; SIMPLIFIED METHODS; SLAB;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 56049102151     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.03.048     Document Type: Article

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