Chemical and physical pretreatments of fruits and vegetables: Effects on drying characteristics and quality attributes–a comprehensive review

LZ Deng, AS Mujumdar, Q Zhang… - Critical reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Pretreatment is widely used before drying of agro-products to inactivate enzymes, enhance
drying process and improve quality of dried products. In current work, the influence of …

Swell drying: Coupling instant controlled pressure drop DIC to standard convection drying processes to intensify transfer phenomena and improve quality—An …

S Mounir, T Allaf, AS Mujumdar, K Allaf - Drying Technology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing globalization is driving agricultural production in develo** countries toward
better recovery levels and high additional value. A great opportunity is thus offered to …

Drying characteristics of sweet cherry

İ Doymaz, O İsmail - Food and bioproducts processing, 2011 - Elsevier
The effects of alkali emulsion of ethyl oleate and air temperature (60, 70 and 75° C) on the
drying characteristics of sweet cherry were studied using a hot air dryer at a constant air …

Evaluation of some thin-layer drying models of persimmon slices (Diospyros kaki L.)

İ Doymaz - Energy conversion and management, 2012 - Elsevier
The effect of blanching and drying temperature (50, 60 and 70° C) on drying kinetics and
rehydration ratio of persimmons under hot-air drying was investigated. It was observed that …

Solar PV powered mixed-mode tunnel dryer for drying potato chips

MA Eltawil, MM Azam, AO Alghannam - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar PV system powered mixed-mode solar tunnel dryer (STD) for drying potato chips was
studied. The STD was equipped with axial dc fan and flat plate solar air collector to enhance …

Microwave-and ultrasound-assisted convective drying of raspberries: Drying kinetics and microstructural changes

J Szadzińska, J Łechtańska, R Pashminehazar… - Drying …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The drying kinetics, microstructural alteration, and rehydration properties of raspberry
samples were studied experimentally in this work. Five different drying programs with the …

[PDF][PDF] Experimental characterization and modeling of thin-layer drying of mango slices

EOM Akoy - International food research journal, 2014 - researchgate.net
Convective air drying characteristics of mango slices at different drying temperatures (60 C,
70 C and 80 C), at an air velocity of 0.5 m/s and for constant sample thickness (3 mm) were …

Thin-layer drying characteristics of sweet potato slices and mathematical modelling

İ Doymaz - Heat and Mass Transfer, 2011 - Springer
The effect of blanching and drying temperature (50, 60 and 70° C) on drying kinetics and
rehydration ratio of sweet potatoes was investigated. It was observed that both the drying …

Influence of drying methods on the thermodynamic parameters, effective moisture diffusion and drying rate of wastewater sewage sludge

B Ameri, S Hanini, M Boumahdi - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, thin layer drying experiments of direct and indirect natural convection solar
drying of wastewater sewage sludge in Algeria were conducted. The purpose of these was …