Developing Hot Air-Assisted Radio Frequency Drying for In-shell Macadamia Nuts

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 278-288

  Wang, Yunyang ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Johnson, Judy ^b   Gao, Mengxiang ^c   Tang, Juming ^d   Powers, Joseph R ^d   Wang, Shaojin ^a,d  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drying; Drying kinetics; Macadamia nuts; Quality; Radio frequency

Indexed keywords

DRYING KINETIC; FINAL MOISTURE CONTENT; HOT AIR TEMPERATURE; LOGARITHMIC MODELS; MACADAMIA NUTS; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DEHYDRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIO WAVES;

DRYING;

MACADAMIA;

EID: 84891632284     PISSN: 19355130     EISSN: 19355149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-013-1055-2     Document Type: Article

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