How to meet the freeze drying standard in combined drying processes: Pre and finish drying of carrot dice

Drying Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 266-277

  Rother, Matthias ^a   Steimle, Philipp ^a   Gaukel, Volker ^a   Schuchmann, Heike P ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combination drying; Freeze drying; Microwave drying; Quality; Time saving

Indexed keywords

AIR DRYING; CELLULAR MATRIX; COLLAPSE TIME; COMBINATION DRYING; DRYING PROCESS; DRYING STEP; DRYING TIME; FREEZE DRYING; HIGH QUALITY; INVESTMENT COSTS; LOWER COST; MICROWAVE - VACUUM DRYING; MICROWAVE DRYING; MICROWAVE-VACUUM; PRE-DRYING; TIME EFFECT; TIME SAVING;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; OPERATING COSTS; VACUUM;

DRYING;

EID: 84858265592     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2010.483564     Document Type: Article

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