Available commercial software to simulate flowsheets incorporating drying is reviewed briefly. Such software can be very cost-effective in the design, analysis, trouble-shooting as well as control and optimization of drying systems. A new comprehensive drying software suite is proposed and analyzed. Key factors to the success of drying software products are discussed. Motivation, principles and...

Partial rootzone drying (PRD) is a new irrigation technique which improves the water use efficiency (by up to 50%) of wine grape production without significant crop reduction. The technique was developed on the basis of knowledge of the mechanisms controlling transpiration and requires that approximately half of the root system is always maintained in a dry or drying state while the remainder o...

One of the problems faced by middle to lower economic class people in big cities is drying clothes, both dry season and rainy season. Artificial clothes equipment needed that can replace role solar energy. The purpose this study was determine performance electric energy dryers length time on a household scale. dryer works using heat-pump based vapor-compression cycle. total power heat pump 200 ...

Conservation of agricultural crops and minimization of grain losses is challenging issue in the present scenario. Effective use of thermal energy for drying of paddy and other cereals for maintaining proper quality is the quality drying process. Natural convection grain dryer is quite suitable for under developed and developing countries like India where rural electrification and advanced dryin...

vacuum drying of salicornia herbacea l. was performed at different drying temperatures (50, 60, 70, and 80c) to evaluate the drying characteristics and the effect of drying temperatures on the quality of salicornia. as the drying temperature increased, the drying time decreased significantly (p< 0.05). the drying rate decreased with decrease in moisture content and increase in drying time. on ...

Cedrus atlantica M. stands from the Middle Atlas Mountains in Morocco have been severely affected by dieback. The edaphic water deficit could be cause that triggered this phenomenon leading to mortality of dying trees. objective work is analyze ecophysiological behavior cedar seedlings subjected an drought progressive intensity. During drying cycle, relative moisture content substrate decreased...

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of pre-treatments (0.1%KMS, 0.2%KMS, 0.3%KMS and blanching) and drying methods (mechanical drying and solar drying) on the dehydration and rehydration characteristics of carrot. The two drying methods yielded dehydrated products with different dehydration ratio, rehydration ratio, co-efficient of reconstitution and moisture content in both the dehy...

The process of microbial spray-drying has inherent defects such as short time, complexity, and non-visualization particle trajectory. However, there been a lack effective methods for real-time sampling, rehydration, non-destructive storage dried particles, well mathematical modeling the drying yeast particles based on sampling measurement data. Therefore, firstly, system was developed which com...