Evaluation of air flow resistance across a green fig bed for selecting an appropriate pressure drop prediction equation

Food and Bioproducts Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-162

  Amanlou, Yasaman ^a   Zomorodian, Ali ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Green fig; Modeling; Physical properties; Resistance to air flow

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIRFLOW RESISTANCE; BED DEPTH; BEST MODEL; BULK DENSITY; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; FICUS CARICA; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GREEN FIG; KERNEL DENSITY; MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; RELATIVE DEVIATIONS; RESISTANCE TO AIR FLOW; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; ROUGHNESS FACTOR; TEST RIGS;

MODELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PRESSURE DROP;

AIR;

CARICA PAPAYA; FICUS CARICA;

EID: 79953734319     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbp.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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