Experimental Investigation and Mechanism Analysis on Microwave Freeze Drying of Stem Lettuce Cubes in a Circular Conduit

Drying Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1377-1386

  Wang, Yuchuan ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Mujumdar, Arun S ^b   Mothibe, Kebitsamang Joseph ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ice melting and freezing point temperatures; Low field pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance; Mechanism analysis; Microwave freeze drying; Moisture contribution; Stem lettuces

Indexed keywords

FREEZING POINT; MECHANISM ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE FREEZE DRYING; PULSED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STEM LETTUCES;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRIC CORONA; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREEZING; FROZEN SOILS; GEOMETRY; MELTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TISSUE;

DRYING;

EID: 84865276693     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2012.667470     Document Type: Article

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