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Drying foodstuffs : Techniques, processes, equipment technical guidebook / Jean-Francois Rozis

By: Publication details: Leiden : Backhuys, c1997Description: 311p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN:
  • 9073348757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 664.028 DRY
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Part one
Drying activity environment

Chapter one:
Evolution of drying practices
The point of drying foodstuffs
The few lessons of and elements of method taken from past experience
Today's research

Chapter two:
The drying chain: From produce to consumption of dried produced
Defining a drying chain
Drying chain
Advice for consuming dried products

Chapter three:
Start by defining the project
Presentation of different drying systems
Listing the specifications from detailed study of the drying chain
Method to appreciate a drying system

Part two
Basic notions on drying of foodstuffs

Chapter four:
Main principles in drying
Principles of foodstuff behaviour
The water in the product
etc..

Chapter five:
Elements of dimensioning a dryer
Warning
Production rhythm, drying temperature, air flow rate and energy required
Produced the required energy

Chapter six:
Examples of various types of dryers
Dryer data sheets' content
Dryer data sheets

Chapter seven:
How to conduct a drying activity
Upstream stages
Down stream stages
etc...

Chapter eight:
Elements for an economical appraisal of drying projects
The point of an economic appraisal
Must one wait to have made a technical choice before proceeding to an economic appraisal?
etc...

Part three
Deeper notions drying

Chapter Nine:
Developing some theoretical elements on drying
Reading the humid air enthalpy diagram
Reading sorption isotherms graphs
etc..

Chapter ten:
Measuring and controlling the drying process
Matter balance sheet
Thermal efficiency
Instrumentation for controlling the drying process

Chapter eleven:
Examples of calculations
Appendices



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