Spray dryers are widely used in the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries to turn liquid products into free flowing powder. To increase the energy efficiency and improve the product quality, the dryer in question combines drying in four stages, instead of single stage drying. In this paper, we present our latest developments within advanced process control for the four-stage spray dryer....

Dryer system is a controlled plant which is normally used in chemical industry. The proper modeling of this system facilitates its maintenance and keeping. Normally this is not an easy task, unless having a complete model of the process, due to sudden and nonlinear events. In this paper the linear identification of dryer plant in Arak petroleum, is introduced according to the Autoregressive wit...

Drying kinetics of sour cheery is investigated in solar dryer with forced convection and under open Sun with natural convection. Drying data were fitted to different mathematical models, whose performance was investigated by comparing coefficient (R), reduced chi-square (Ç) and root mean square error (RMSE) between the observed and predicted moisture ratios. Among these models, drying model dev...

to increase agricultural crops’ quality and to minimize losses in the final product and used energy during the drying process, major drying system parameters should be continuously controlled. precise control of such parameters is attained by using automatic control systems. to optimize the overall dryer efficiency in a forced convective solar dryer, a controller was designed, constructed a...

A frequent object of study in linguistic typology is the order of elements {demonstrative, adjective, numeral, noun} in the noun phrase. The goal is to predict the relative frequencies of these orders across languages. Here we use Poisson regression to statistically compare some prominent accounts of this variation. We compare feature systems derived from Cinque (2005) to feature systems given ...

Indonesia is an agricultural country with 40% of the population's livelihood provided by farmers. Harvested rice typically has a moisture content 20-27% on wet basis. The type artificial dryer that often used tub or rotary type. This research aims to develop using combined tray and rotary-type method. Based result, higher speed dryer, shorter drying time. net result this test relationship betwe...

Dryer for providing helpful comments on several versions of this paper. Remaining errors and omissions are my own.

In this research a fuzzy model is developed for a rotary dryer. It is applied to the pilot plant rotary dryer located in the Control Engineering Laboratory at Oulu University. Firstly, a literature review looking at the current situation of fuzzy modelling and comparison of different methods is done. One modelling method is then applied to the building of the model from data. The rule parameter...

Exposing wet hair to high temperatures can create gas bubbles within the hair shaft, leading to brittle, dry hairs in a disorder known as bubble hair abnormality. We present a case of a 61-year-old woman who presented for hair breakage over her crown. She regularly dried her damp hair with a blow dryer. Dermoscopy revealed multiple bubbles within the hair shaft, and diagnosis of bubble hair abn...