Microwave Drying Kinetics of a Thin-Layer Liquorice Root

Drying Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 859-864

  Balbay, Asim ^a   Şahin, Ömer ^a  

^a SIIRT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Drying; Kinetic; Liquorice root; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DRYING KINETIC; DRYING TEMPERATURE; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIT QUALITY; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; LIQUORICE ROOTS; MICROWAVE DRYING; MICROWAVE POWER LEVELS; NEW MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SUM SQUARE ERROR; THIN LAYERS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; KINETICS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; THERMOANALYSIS;

DRYING;

EID: 84861513905     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2012.670682     Document Type: Article

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