Studies on decreasing energy consumption for a freeze-drying process of apple slices

Drying Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 938-946

  Huang, Lue Lue ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Mujumdar, Arun S ^b   Sun, Dong Feng ^c   Tan, Guan Wei ^d   Tang, Shameel ^d  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Shandong Luhua Group Co Ltd   (China)

^d SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Apple slices; Freeze drying; Invalid energy consumption; Microwave vacuum drying; Saving energy

Indexed keywords

APPLE SLICES; FREEZE DRYING; INVALID ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MICROWAVE VACUUM DRYING; SAVING ENERGY;

CURING; DEWATERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRUITS; MICROWAVES; VACUUM;

DRYING;

EID: 70349754315     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930902901844     Document Type: Article

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