An investigation of drying process of shelled pistachios in a newly designed fixed bed dryer system by using artificial neural network

Drying Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1685-1696

  Balbay, Asim ^a   Şahin, Ömer ^a   Karabatak, Murat ^b  

^a SIIRT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Drying; Heat transfer; Pistachio

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR VELOCITIES; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACKPROPAGATION LEARNING ALGORITHM; CONSTANT RATE; DRYING CHARACTERISTICS; DRYING PROCESS; DRYING TIME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FALLING-RATE PERIOD; FIXED BED DRYER; HIDDEN LAYERS; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; NEURON NUMBER; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PISTACHIO; QUALITY PRODUCT; SCALED CONJUGATE GRADIENTS; SIGMOID TRANSFER FUNCTION; TEST DATA; TRAINING DATA;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DRYING;

EID: 84860389241     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2011.600843     Document Type: Article

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