Improved 3-D temperature uniformity in a laboratory drying oven based on experimentally validated CFD computations

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-383

  Smolka, Jacek ^a   Nowak, Andrzej J ^a   Rybarz, Dawid ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Pol Eko Aparatura SpJ ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

CFD; Drying ovens; Numerical simulation; Temperature uniformity

Indexed keywords

AIR CIRCULATION; AIR PROPERTIES; CFD; CFD ANALYSIS; CFD COMPUTATION; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTRICAL HEATER; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXTERNAL WALLS; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ROTATIONAL SPEED; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY; THERMAL PROCESS; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEWATERING; DRYING; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; OVENS; SIMULATORS; STOVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 72049126368     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.10.032     Document Type: Article

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