Drying behavior and mathematical modeling of dairy cattle manure in a convective dryer

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 689-697

  Amin Nayyeri, M ^b   Kianmehr, M H ^a   Arabhosseini, A ^a   Hassan Beygi, S R ^a   Aghbashlo, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Activation energy; Dairy cattle manure; Drying; Modeling; Moisture diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; BEST FIT; CONVECTIVE DRYERS; DAIRY CATTLE MANURE; DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSIVITY COEFFICIENT; DRYING AIR; DRYING BEHAVIOR; DRYING MODEL; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MODELING; MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; MOISTURE TRANSFER; PAGE MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THREE MODELS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CURING; DIFFUSION; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); DRYING; MANURES; MOISTURE CONTROL;

DAIRIES;

BOS;

EID: 77957194864     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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