Simulating industrial spray-drying operations using a reaction engineering approach and a modified desorption method

Drying Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-428

  Zhu, Peng ^a,b,c   Patel, Kamlesh ^d   Lin, Sean ^d   Méjean, Serge ^a,b   Blanchard, Eric ^c   Chen, Xiao Dong ^d   Schuck, Pierre ^a,b   Jeantet, Romain ^a,b  

^a UMR1253   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^c Laiterie de Montaigu ^*  (France)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dairy products; Desorption method; Reaction engineering approach; Simulation; Spray drying

Indexed keywords

1-D SIMULATION; DESORPTION BEHAVIOR; DRYING AIR; DRYING KINETIC; DRYING OPERATION; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; MASS BALANCE; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; QUALITY PARAMETERS; REACTION ENGINEERING APPROACH; SIMULATION; SPRAY DRYING PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURING; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DESORPTION; SPRAY DRYING;

DRYING;

EID: 79952383936     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2010.501928     Document Type: Article

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