Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Handbook of Industrial Drying |
Editors | Arun S. Mujumdar |
Place of Publication | Boca Raton |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Chapter | 17 |
Pages | 381-392 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Edition | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781466596665 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781466596658 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
Abstract
Drying is a separation process that converts a wet solid, semisolid, or liquid feedstock into a solid product by evaporation of the liquid into a vapor phase via heating. Essential features of the drying process are phase change and production of a solid, dried product.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- General Chemistry
- General Chemical Engineering