Experimental and theoretical analysis of drying carrots

Desalination

Volumn 237, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 285-295

  Kaya, Ahmet ^a   Aydin, Orhan ^a   Demirtaş, Cevdet ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Carrot; Convective drying; Drying kinetics; Effective diffusivity; Experimental; Numerical; Relative humidity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEWATERING; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; SORPTION;

CARROT; CONVECTIVE DRYING; DRYING KINETICS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL; NUMERICAL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

CURING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SORPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DAUCUS CAROTA;

EID: 58149193201     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.01.022     Document Type: Article

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