Product Description: This multivolume work covers drying, a key industrial processes that accounts for about 10-percent of total energy consumption in industry. It guides engineers towards achieving energy savings through such approaches as improved apparatus design, optimization, and heat recovery...read more

Product Description: Drying is very challenging in both theory and experiment because of the multiphase and multiscale nature of the process. This third volume of Modern Drying Technology provides chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, process engineers, apparatus construction engineers, process engineers, pharma engineers, and food technologists with high-level, cutting-edge results information on: preservation of product quality during the drying of foods and biomaterials, preservation of active pharmaceutical ingredients during freeze drying, quality of paper products, drying of highly porous materials, optoelectronics, particle formation and morphology, and particle formulation...read more

Drying is of fundamental importance in most sectors of food processing. This volume provides an up to date account of all the major drying technologies employed in the food industry and their underlying scientific principles and effects. Various equipment designs are classified and described. The impact of drying on food properties is covered, and the micro-structural changes caused by the process are examined, highlighting their usefulness in process analysis and food design. Key methods for assessing food properties of dried products are described, and pre-concentration and drying control strategies are reviewed. Thermal hazards and fire/explosion detection and prevention for dryers are discussed. Where appropriate, sample calculations are included for engineers and technologists to follow.The book is directed at food scientists and technologists in industry and research, food engineers and drying equipment manufacturers.

Still the Most Complete, Up-To-Date, and Reliable Reference in the Field Drying is a highly energy-intensive operation and is encountered in nearly all industrial sectors. With rising energy costs and consumer demands for higher quality dried products, it is increasingly important to be aware of the latest developments in industrial drying technologies. For two decades, Mujumdar’s industry-standard Handbook of Industrial Drying has been the quintessential source of state-of-the-art information in the field, and this third edition is no exception. New in the Third Edition Covering everything from the fundamentals of drying to the latest dryer types, nearly two-thirds of this edition comprises new material at the vanguard of research and industrial practice. In addition to several rewritten and many more revised chapters, new chapters cover such topics as: Spreadsheet-aided dryer design Indirect and pneumatic drying Drying of fish and seafood, grain, herbal medicines, and tea Drying of nanosize products, enzymes, and textiles Dewatering and drying of wastewater treatment sludge Heat pump drying and industrial crystallization Solid–liquid separation for pretreatment Providing important data along with the experience, insight, and practical know-how contributed by experts from around the world, the Handbook of Industrial Drying, Third Edition remains the definitive reference to the complete spectrum of current and emerging industrial drying technologies.

Product Description: Dehydration continues to be an active area for R&D in view of the importance of this ubiquitous unit operation as the most cost-effective means of preservation and production of products of biological origin. With few exceptions, quality and hence the market value of the dried product is governed by drying operation...read more

Product Description: The Handbook of Postharvest Technology presents methods in the manufacture and supply of grains, fruits, vegetables, and spices. It details the physiology, structure, composition, and characteristics of grains and crops. The text covers postharvest technology through processing, handling, drying and milling to storage, packaging, and distribution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents Drying Breakthroughs for an Array of Materials Despite being one of the oldest, most energy-intensive unit operations, industrial drying is perhaps the least scrutinized technique at the microscopic level. Yet in the wake of today’s global energy crisis, drying research and development is on the rise...read more

Product Description: Drying is one of the most cost-effective means of perservation of grains, crops and foods of all varieties. From both energy and environmental viewpoints, as well as the global requirement to feed the growing population, it is important that the drying technique and technology be improved to reduce spoilage and enhance the quality of the product...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers information necessary for the development of mathematical models and numerical techniques to solve specific drying problems. The book addresses difficult issues involved with the drying equations of numerical analysis, including mesh generation, discretization strategies, the nonlinear equation set and the linearized algebraic system, convergence criteria, time step control, experimental validation, optimum methods of visualization results, and more.

Product Description: The subject matter covered in this volume covers a wide scope. It contains critical reviews in many frontier areas of interest to engineers and applied scientists. Multiphase transport ranging from floc breakage to flow through multiphase media is discussed...read more

Product Description: This fifth volume, comprising nine papers , in a series on drying, presents recent research on drying and dehydration (including non-thermal methods) of solids and sludges, as applied to a wide spectrum of industrial technologies.

Product Description: This book deals with the fundamental, as well as the applied, aspects of drying and dewatering in all industrial sectors, e.g. chemical, textile, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food industry, pulp and paper processing, wood drying, minerals processing, drying of gels and dispersions, processing of polymers, ceramics and other advanced materials, and biotechnological product processing...read more

Product Description: A selection of papers from the recent 6th International Drying Symposium held in Versailles where experts from 35 countries presented the most recent developments in all aspects of drying, spanning the full range of industrial interests.

Product Description: Transport Processes in Engineering is a new multidisciplinary series of books intended to provide, in an integrated fashion, authoritative and timely coverage of selected topics in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer. The series will publish edited works on coherent themes of current and potential application as well as monographs and advanced reference works for researchers, advanced students, practicing engineers and applied scientists...read more

Product Description: International contributors give wide coverage of the latest developments in the theory and practice of the drying of solids. Drying is one of the most common and energy-intensive operations in industry, and the cost is determined by the desired level of product moisture and the unit operation of nonthermal dewatering--hence the commissioned article on a new dewatering technique...read more