Low-Pressure Superheated Steam Drying of a Porous Media

Drying Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 103-110

  Messai, Souad ^a,b   Sghaier, Jalila ^c   El Ganaoui, Mohamed ^a   Chrusciel, Laurent ^a   Gabsi, Slimane ^b  

^a Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Technologies et Industries du Bois   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GABES   (Tunisia)

^c Laboratoire d'Energétique et des Transferts Thermiques et Massiques   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Mathematical modeling; Porous media; Superheated steam drying; Vacuum drying

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EFFECTIVE POROSITY; FALLING-RATE PERIOD; FLUID TEMPERATURES; LOW-PRESSURE SUPERHEATED STEAM DRYING; OPERATING VARIABLES; SUPERHEATED STEAM DRYING; THEORETICAL MODELING; VACUUM DRYING;

DRYING;

EID: 84914675578     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2014.933843     Document Type: Article

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