Drying
Principles and Practice
Published on 22. October 2013
378 pages
978-1-4831-4633-1 (ISBN)
Description
Drying Principles and Practice presents the fundamental principles that underlie drying arts as a basis for explaining the behavior of a drying plant. This book begins with an introductory chapter, followed by an account of the phenomena that causes the influence of moisture on its host material and manner in which moisture may be expelled by heat into the humid surroundings. The quantitative description of the way a moist material dries and how it dries under commercial conditions are also provided. The remainder of this text is devoted to surveying less-common methods of drying, moisture-measurement techniques, dryer-control systems, and aspects of the choice and design of industrial dryers. This publication is valuable to engineers, but is also a good source for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students engaged in studies of heat with mass transfer.
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Major TopicsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotationApproximate Values of Some Common Properties1. Introduction2. Moisture-Solid Relationships3. Transport Phenomena4. Heat Transfer5. Migration of Moisture in Solids6. Evaporation and Humidification7. Drying under Constant External Conditions8. Batch Drying9. Continuous Drying10. Less-Common Drying Methods11. Measurement and Control12. EngineeringConversion FactorsAppendixAuthor IndexSubject Index
