Pear drying: Experimental validation of a mathematical prediction model

Food and Bioproducts Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 248-253

  Guiné, Raquel P F ^a  

^a Centro de Estudos em Educac ão Tecnologias e Saúde   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Drying; Experimental validation; Fick's law; Modelling; Pear; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; DEWATERING; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; FRUIT JUICES; FRUITS; MOISTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION; FICK'S LAW; MODELLING; PEAR; SIMULATION;

CURING;

PYRUS;

EID: 56849104347     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbp.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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