Experimental study on convective drying of quince slices and evaluation of thin-layer drying models

Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 169-177

  Tzempelikos, Dimitrios A ^a   Vouros, Alexandros P ^b   Bardakas, Achilleas V ^b   Filios, Andronikos E ^c   Margaris, Dionissios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b SCHOOL OF PEDAGOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Convective dryer; Effective diffusivity; Quince; Thin layer models

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AIR; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); HEAT CONVECTION; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONVECTIVE DRYERS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; FICK'S LAW OF DIFFUSION; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUINCE; THIN LAYER DRYING MODELS; THIN LAYER MODEL;

DRYING;

EID: 84923324065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18818366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eaef.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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