Air drying characteristics and moisture diffusivity of carrots

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-218

  Zielinska, Magdalena ^a   Markowski, Marek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carrots; Drying; Mathematical modeling; Moisture diffusivity; Spout fluidized bed

Indexed keywords

AIR DRYING; AIR TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE DRYING; DRYING CHARACTERISTICS; DRYING KINETIC; DRYING PHASE; DRYING RATES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EFFECTIVE MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FICK'S EQUATION; LEWIS MODEL; MATERIAL SHRINKAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DEWATERING; DIFFUSION; DRYING; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SHRINKAGE;

CURING;

EID: 77649179669     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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