Product Description: A comprehensive approach to selecting and understanding drying equipment for chemical and mechanical engineers A detailed reference of interest for engineers and energy specialists working in the process industry field, Drying in the Process Industry investigates the current state of the art of today's industrial drying practices, examines the factors influencing drying's high costs in both equipment and energy consumption, and summarizes key elements for keeping drying operations under budget and performing at peak capacity safely while respecting the environment...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.

Product Description: This five-volume handbook provides a comprehensive overview of all important aspects of modern drying technology, including only advanced results.Volume 1 deals with computational tools at different scales, including homogenized, pore network and continuous thermo-mechanical models, computational fluid dynamics and population balances, as well as process systems simulation tools...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

A practical guide for ensuring a defect-free coating and drying processFor professionals in the coating and drying industry, the world is a demanding place. New, technically complex products such as fuel cell membranes, thin film batteries, solar cells, and RFID chips require coatings of extreme precision. With the bar raised so high, understanding how to troubleshoot and eliminate defects on a coating line is an essential skill for all personnel.Coating and Drying Defects, Second Edition provides manufacturing and quality control personnel, equipment operators and supervisors, and plant engineers and scientists with the full complement of proven tools and techniques for detecting, defining, and eliminating coating defects and operating problems, and for ensuring that they do not recur.Updating the valuable contents of the first edition, this practical Second Edition:Describes all major processes for coating and drying of continuous film on sheets or websCovers technologies that have been recently developed to prevent defect formation and improve operating proceduresProvides a rational framework within which to assess and analyze virtually any defect that may ariseOffers step-by-step guidelines for conducting every phase of the troubleshooting process, including defect preventionGoing beyond simply describing a disparate set of troubleshooting techniques, this unique guide arms readers with a systematic, nonmathematical methodology encompassing the entire coating operation, becoming an indispensable resource for manufacturing and quality-control personnel as well as plant engineers, polymer scientists, surface scientists, organic chemists, and coating scientists.

Product Description: Many modern pharmaceutical and biological products, e.g. blood derivatives, vaccines, cytostatic drugs, antibiotics, bacteria cultures but also consumer goods such as soluble coffee are freeze-dried to transform perishable substances into a form that can be stored and reconstituted to their almost original state without loss of quality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a systematic thermomechanical theory of drying. The book has an interdisciplinary character and combines the knowledge of Chemical Engineering and Mechanics of Continua. It contents a unified approach to the heat and mass transfer in drying processes as well as a precise analysis of all local drying effects...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: This CD-ROM contains the text of all papers presented during the 12th International Drying Symposium (IDS2000), held from 28-31 August 2000 in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. IDS2000 also includes the mini-symposium Advances in Paper Dewatering (AIPD2000)...read more

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: Drying of Polymeric and Solid Materials shows for the first time how the process of drying can be enhanced by combining mathematical and numerical models with experiments. The main advantages of this method are a significant saving of time and money...read more

Product Description: These volumes constitute the formal proceedings of the 8th International Drying Symposium (IDS' 92) held in Montreal, August 2-5, 1992. Some 300 papers were submitted to the symposium which amply testifies to the continuing growth of research and development around the world in the field of drying and particularly the recognition by industry of the significance of the solids drying operation...read more

Product Description: In this book, industrial engineers and others will find a much needed introduction and reference on the science of coating. Drawn from a two-day course organized by the editors, this book delineates the major processes used in coating continuous webs, emphasizing precision application technology for the high performance coatings required by so many high-tech products...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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: Considering drying as a method for accomplishing a liquid/solid separation by other than mechanical means, and noting that it is an energy-intensive procedure requiring expensive equipment, suggests to process development, process, and plant engineers what criteria to use in choosing the appropriat...read more

Product Description: Using graphs, calculation models and step-by-step guidelines, the authors describe the important tools and techniques and explain how to use them to perform scale-ups and calculate exposure times, to test dryers and study the relationship between drying processes and dryer characteristics, to analyze psychometric charts, to utilize calculation methods for process drying any solvent in any gas, and to overcome complications in the start-up phase and troubleshoot the cause of low production in drying systems...read more

Product Description: This work furnishes students and practising engineers with a guide to the principles of industrial drying of particulate and loose solids and with advice on improved design procedures. The book focuses on those processes considered by the author to be the most effective in the current field...read more

Product Description: In an average year in the UK, dryers cause one explosion and 30 serious fires. This revised second edition, explains the circumstances which are likely to produce fires or explosions, and what the engineer should do to reduce the risk of them happening...read more

Product Description: This book shows you why and how the entire manufacturing and drying process-from beginning to end-affects the final quality of lumber from your dry kilns. It focuses on the challenges in high temperature drying of Southern Pine, a species known to warp, but applies to any kiln operations...read more