Fluidized bed drying of some agro products–A review

R Sivakumar, R Saravanan, AE Perumal… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Food products are dried to improve their shelf-life, reduce packaging costs, lower ship**
weights, enhance appearance, to attempt to encapsulate original flavor and maintain …

Fluidized bed dryers—Recent advances

WRW Daud - Advanced Powder Technology, 2008 - Elsevier
Although industrial fluidized bed dryers have been used successfully for the drying of wet
solid particles for many years, the development of industrial fluidized bed dryers for any …

CFD coupled heat and mass transfer simulation of pineapple drying process using mixed-mode solar dryers integrated with flat plate and finned collector

P Rani, PP Tripathy - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The present research deals with the analysis of 3-dimensional computational models to
analyze the airflow, temperature profile of dryer coupled with heat transfer of pineapple …

Energy and exergy analyses of solar-assisted fluidized bed drying integrated with biomass furnace

M Yahya, A Fudholi, K Sopian - Renewable energy, 2017 - Elsevier
A hybrid solar-biomass fluidized bed drying system was designed, evaluated and
developed. The system was comprised of a fluidized bed, a solar collector, and a biomass …

Performance and economic analyses on solar-assisted heat pump fluidised bed dryer integrated with biomass furnace for rice drying

M Yahya, H Fahmi, A Fudholi, K Sopian - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This study is concerned with the performance and economic analyses on solar-assisted heat
pump fluidised bed dryer integrated with biomass furnace for rice drying. The dryer …

Evaluation of drying models of apple (var. Ligol) dried in a fluidized bed dryer

A Kaleta, K Górnicki, R Winiczenko… - Energy Conversion and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Three new drying models were formulated. The developed models are various modifications
of the Page model. The models were used to describe the drying behaviour of apple (var …

Experimental and theoretical investigation of shelled corn drying in a microwave-assisted fluidized bed dryer using Artificial Neural Network

L Momenzadeh, A Zomorodian, D Mowla - Food and bioproducts …, 2011 - Elsevier
Drying characteristics of shelled corn (Zea mays L) with an initial moisture content of 26%
dry basis (db) was studied in a fluidized bed dryer assisted by microwave heating. Four air …

Performance analysis of solar-biomass hybrid heat pump batch-type horizontal fluidized bed dryer using multi-stage heat exchanger for paddy drying

M Yahya, A Rachman, R Hasibuan - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•The performance of FBD-WHR mode and FBD-WHR mode for drying of paddy
was evaluated.•The specific energy consumption was lower for FBD-WHR than for FBD …

Fluidized bed paddy drying in optimal conditions via adaptive fuzzy logic control

S Atthajariyakul, T Leephakpreeda - Journal of food engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper presents systematic determination of optimal conditions for fluidized bed paddy
drying and adaptive fuzzy logic control in order to guarantee good quality and consume …

Evaluating the fluidized-bed drying of rice using response surface methodology and artificial neural network

S Nanvakenari, K Movagharnejad, A Latifi - Lwt, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the effect of fluidized bed dryer under different fluidization regimes and
temperature on drying time and quality properties of rice has been investigated. To predict …