This book examines dryers for numerous materials from particulate solids, through slurries and suspensions, to continuous sheets! It presents the most recent breakthroughs in thermal dehydration, drying, and dewatering. As a unique reference, it emphasizes emerging equipment, innovative techniques, and cost-effective strategies for a variety of industrial and agricultural applications.
Advanced Drying Technologies offers classification and selection criteria for new and advanced drying systems and compares conventional dryers to novel technologies including modified fluid bed, superheated steam, and impinging stream dryers.
Fueled by the energy crisis, consumer demand for improved quality products, and environmental considerations, Advanced Drying Technologies addresses
- new and emerging drying technologies for a variety of products
- hybrid and multistage drying systems
- superheated steam drying for low energy consumption and minimal environmental impact
- contemporary drying methods developed through technology-push and market-pull
- guidelines for dryer selection
- pre- and postdrying operations for industrial dryers
- and more!
Advanced Drying Technologies is an authoritative source for chemical, industrial, mechanical, agricultural, and process engineers; chemists and biochemists; food researchers and technologists; research and development managers; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and continuing-education students in these disciplines.
Contents
- General Discussion: Conventional and Novel Drying Concepts
- Need for Advanced Drying Technologies
- Classification and Selection Criteria: Conventional Versus Novel Technologies
- Innovation and Trends in Drying Technologies
- Selected Advanced Drying Technologies
- Drying on Inert Particles
- Impinging Stream Drying
- Drying in Pulsed Fluid Beds
- Superheated Steam Drying
- Airless Drying
- Drying in Mobilized Bed
- Drying with Shock Waves
- Vacu Jet Drying System
- Contact-Sorption Drying
- Sonic Drying
- Pulse Combustion Drying
- Heat-Pump Drying
- Selected Techniques for Drying and Dewatering
- Carver-Greenfield Process
- Drying in a Plasma Torch
- Displacement Drying
- Vapor Drying
- Slush Drying
- Atmospheric Freeze-Drying
- Hybrid Drying Technologies
- Radio-Frequency Drying with 50-Ohm Technology
- Radio-Frequency-Assisted Heat-Pump Drying
- Radio-Frequency-Vacuum Drying
- Microwave-Convective Drying
- Microwave-Vacuum Drying
- Filtermat Drying
- Spray-Fluid Bed-Vibrated Fluid Bed Drying
- Combined Filtration and Drying
- Other Hybrid Technologies
- Other Techniques
- Special Drying Technologies
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