Influence of drying conditions on the effective moisture diffusivity and energy requirements during the drying of pretreated and untreated pumpkin

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1107-1113

  Tunde Akintunde, Toyosi Y ^a   Ogunlakin, Grace O ^a  

^a LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Energy requirement; Moisture diffusivity; Total energy

Indexed keywords

DRYING AIR; DRYING CONDITION; EFFECTIVE MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGY OF ACTIVATION; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; EXPERIMENT DATA; FALLING RATE DRYING; HIGH MOISTURE; HOT-AIR DRYERS; INPUT ENERGY; MAXIMUM VALUES; MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; SPECIFIC ENERGY REQUIREMENT; THIN LAYER DRYING; TOTAL ENERGY;

ANIMALS; CURING; DIFFUSION; DRYING; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 78649325752     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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