Development of a semi-industrial multi fruit dryer system using simultaneous intelligent control

American Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-166

  Javanmard, Marjan ^a   Endan, Johari ^a   Abbas, K A ^a   Arvin, Farshad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Batch; Fruit dryer; Microcontroller; Moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349122346     PISSN: 15469239     EISSN: 15543641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajassp.2010.160.166     Document Type: Article

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