Drying is one of the widely used methods of grain, fruit, and vegetable preservation. The
important aim of drying is to reduce the moisture content and thereby increase the lifetime of …

Drying operations can help in reducing the moisture content of food materials for avoidance
of microbial growth and deterioration, for shelf life elongation, to minimize packaging and …

Food processing is a unique method to create a structure that has been imparted by nature.
The food‐processing industries are still facing some technological challenges like structural …

Thermal utilization of oily sludge has attracted increased attention. This work studies the
combustion characteristics of oily sludge, and its interaction with biomass as well as the …

The drying of olive pomace waste was performed using a partially indirect solar convective
dryer operating in forced convection. This comparative study is focused on the drying …

The present work aims to evaluate the influence of sonication pre-treatment on the drying
kinetics of guava circular slices in electric oven. Circular guava slices with 6.0 mm thickness …

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the thin-layer drying behavior of potato slices in
a semi-industrial continuous band dryer. Potato slices with thickness of 5mm were used for …

Heat pump drying is an energy-saving method for drying sludge. However, the existing
research on sludge drying characteristics is not consistent with the operating temperature of …

The energy and exergy analyses of the drying process of olive mill wastewater (OMW) using
an indirect type natural convection solar dryer are presented. Olive mill wastewater gets …

Spain generates a big amount of agroindustrial by-products of high moisture that produce a
high environmental impact. This fact motivates the aim of this paper, in which a solar dryer …