Drying of Pepper Seed Particles in a Superheated Steam Fluidized Bed Operating at Reduced Pressure

Drying Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 884-890

  Kozanoglu, B ^a   Flores, A ^a   Guerrero Beltran J A ^a   Welti Chanes, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Fluidized bed drying; Superheated steam drying; Vacuum drying

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER PRESSURE; CRITICAL MOISTURE CONTENT; DRYING RATES; EQUILIBRIUM MOISTURE CONTENTS; FLUIDIZED BED DRYING; MASS FLOW RATE; OPERATING PRESSURE; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; REDUCED PRESSURE; SEED PARTICLE; STEAM VELOCITY; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; SUPERHEATED STEAM; SUPERHEATED STEAM DRYING; SUPPLEMENTARY HEAT; VACUUM DRYING; WARM-UP PERIOD;

DRYING; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

STEAM;

EID: 84861515102     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2012.675532     Document Type: Article

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