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By Sachin Vinayak Jangam, Chung Lim Law, Shivanand Shankarrao Shirkole
January 30, 2025
In the process industry, understanding the unit operation of particulate drying is imperative to yield products with desired properties and characteristics and to ensure process safety, optimal energy efficiency and drying performance, as well as low environmental impact. There are many techniques ...
By Chien Hwa Chong, Rafeah Wahi, Chee Ming Choo, Shee Jia Chew, Mackingsley Kushan Dassanayake
December 19, 2024
Drying and Valorisation of Food Processing Waste is a comprehensive guide that delves into the crucial role of advanced drying technologies in mitigating the issue of food waste. This book evaluates the current research, technologies, and methodologies in food waste processing and valorisation, ...
By Marcos Antonio de Souza Barrozo, Dyrney Araújo Dos Santos, Cláudio Roberto Duarte, Suellen Mendonça Nascimento
December 19, 2024
Rotary Drum: Fluid Dynamics, Dimensioning Criteria, and Industrial Applications provides in-depth analysis of fluid dynamics in rotary drums. In addition, it provides analysis on the different configurations, including nonconventional ones, diverse industrial applications, and comparison with ...
By Mukund Haribhau Bade, Sachin Vinayak Jangam, Arun S. Mujumdar
October 22, 2024
Superheated steam drying (SSD) has long been recognized for several major advantages it offers over other convective dryers, including high energy efficiency by utilization of energy in the exhaust steam, higher product quality due to the absence of oxygen, and avoidance of fire and explosion ...
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By Rui Wu, Marc Prat
October 08, 2024
Mass Transfer–Driven Evaporation from Capillary Porous Media offers a comprehensive review of mass transfer–driven drying processes in capillary porous media, including pore-scale and macro-scale experiments and models. It covers kinetics of drying of a single pore, pore-scale experiments and ...
By Azharul Karim, Sabrina Fawzia, Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman
October 07, 2024
Although strides have been made to quantitatively explore micro-level structural changes during food processing using advanced technologies, there is currently no comprehensive book that details these developments. Therefore, the research community and related industries are not fully aware of the ...
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By Cécile Le Floch-Fouéré, Pierre Schuck, Gaëlle Tanguy, Luca Lanotte, Romain Jeantet
October 04, 2024
With more than 12M tons of dairy powders produced each year at a global scale, the drying sector accounts to a large extent for the processing of milk and whey. It is generally considered that 40% of the dry matter collected overall ends up in a powder form. Moreover, nutritional dairy products ...
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By Seid Mahdi Jafari, Ali Rashidinejad
October 04, 2024
Encapsulation of bioactives is a fast-growing approach in the food and pharmaceutical industry. Spray Drying Encapsulation of Bioactive Materials serves as a source of information to offer specialized and in-depth knowledge on the most well-known and used encapsulation technology (i.e., spray ...
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By Felipe Richter Reis, Shivanand S. Shirkole
July 10, 2024
Dehydration of fruits is a massive operation amounting to tens of billions of dollars’ worth in the global market. The enormous variety of fruits grown around the world and the wide range of products made therefrom make this an attractive method for the development of novel and shelf-stable ...
By Viplav Hari Pise, Ramakant Harlalka, Bhaskar Narayan Thorat
November 01, 2023
Drying of Aromatic Plant Material for Natural Perfumes provides readers with a deep understanding of the fascinating world of aromatic plants, drying, extraction and perfumery. It covers the significance and global demand of essential oils, a glimpse of plant histology, secretion and storage of ...
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By Ching Lik Hii, Shivanand S. Shirkole
September 28, 2023
Drying is a key operation in processing of many plant-based foods and medicines for the purpose of preservation and retention of key attributes and active compounds. Therefore, it is essential to select suitable drying techniques to ensure a product is processed under optimal operating conditions. ...
By Mariia Sobulska, Ireneusz Zbicinski
September 25, 2023
Drying processes are among the most energy-consuming operations in industry. Flame spray drying (FSD) is a novel approach to reduce the energy supply needed for the spray drying process. Flame Spray Drying: Equipment, Mechanism, and Perspectives describes FSD technology and current developments in ...