"Current Drying Processes" ed. by Israel Pala-Rosas

This volume presents recent advances in the development of drying operations through the presentation of chapters dealing with theoretical and experimental aspects of different technologies, namely solar, convective, fluidized, and ultrasonic drying, for organic and inorganic materials.

The drying stage is important in biotechnological and chemical processes because it allows the pretreatment of feedstocks with different moisture contents for their physical or chemical transformation. Drying also enables the post-treatment of products for their final presentation and packaging, thus having wide application in the food, agro-industrial, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.


Contents
1.Kinetics of Drying Medicinal Plants by Hybridization of Solar Technologies
2.Postharvest Treatment of Tropical Fruits Pineapple (Ananas comosus), Mamey (Mammea americana), and Banana (Musa paradisiaca) by Means of a Solar Dryer Designed
3.Convective Drying in the Multistage Shelf Dryers: Theoretical Bases and Practical Implementation
4.Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Rapeseed Drying on Concurrent-Flow Dryer
5.Determination on Fluidization Velocity Types of the Continuous Refined Salt Fluidized Bed Drying
6.The Study of Fabric Drying Using Direct-Contact Ultrasonic Vibration