Neural network approach for food temperature prediction during solar drying

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1452-1459

  Tripathy, P P ^a   Kumar, Subodh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Food temperature prediction; Heat diffusion model; Laplace transform; Solar drying; Statistical model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FOOD TEMPERATURE PREDICTION; HEAT DIFFUSION MODEL; SOLAR DRYING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACKPROPAGATION; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEWATERING; DIFFUSION; DRYING; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; SOLAR DRYERS; SUN;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 64949176652     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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