Effects of porosity on the performance of EHD-enhanced drying

Drying Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1477-1483

  Ramachandran, M R ^a   Lai, F C ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Corona wind; Drying enhancement; Electrohydrodynamics (EHD); Porosity

Indexed keywords

CORONA WINDS; CROSSFLOW VELOCITIES; DC HIGH VOLTAGE; GLASS BEAD; MATERIAL STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE POLARITY; THIN WIRES; VOLTAGE RANGES;

CURING; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; POROSITY;

DRYING;

EID: 78649490802     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2010.482710     Document Type: Article

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