Drying '85

Section I Texts of Keynote Lectures at IDS'86, Kyoto, Japan.- Opportunities for Fundamental Research in Drying.- Short-cut Calculation for Non-isothermal Drying of Shrinking and Non-shrinking Particles and of Hollow Spheres Containing an Expanding Central Gas Core.- Moisture Transport Mechanisms During the Drying of Granular Porous Media.- Aspects of Solar Drying.- Steam Drying.- Control of Food-Quality Factors in Spray Drying.- Modelling Continuous Convection Dryers for Particulate Solids - Progress and Problems.- Vacuum Contact Drying of Free Flowing Mechanically Agitated Particulate Material.- Heat and Mass Transport Properties of Heterogeneous Materials.- Section II Drying Theory and Modelling.- Influence of Surface Active Agents on the Drying Rate of Solids.- Theory of Constant-Rate Expression and Subsequent Relaxation.- Importance of Gas Phase Momentum Equation in Drying Above the Boiling Point of Water.- Convective Drying of Porous Materials Containing Binary Mixtures.- The Mathematical Modelling of Drying Process Based on Moisture Transfer Mechanism.- Numerical Modeling of the Drying of Porous Materials.- Theoretical Prediction of Moisture Transfer by Convective Drying for a Flat Plate.- An Analysis of Drying Rate Mechanism in Complex Solids.- Section III Drying of Granular Solids.- Particle Velocities in Pneumatic Conveying Dryers.- Drying of Granular Particles in a Multistage Inclined Fluidized Bed with Mechanical Vibration.- Combined Heat and Mass Transfer During Drying of Molecular Sieve Pellets.- Air Drying Kinetics of Biological Particles.- Single Tube Heat Transfer in Aerated Vibrated Beds.- Indirect Heating of Solid Particles.- Heat Transfer Coefficient Between Heating Wall and Agitated Granular Bed.- Heat Transfer from Submerged Body Moving in Granular Bed.- Section IV Spray Drying.- Effect of Droplet Size on the Properties of Spray-Dried Whole Milk.- An Assessment of Steam Operated Spray Dryers.- Volatile Loss in Spray Drying.- The Mathematical Modelling of Cocurrent Spray Drying.- Control and Energy Aspects of Milk Powder Spray-Drying in Relation to Product Quality.- Section V Vacuum and Freeze Drying.- Application of Optimal Control Strategy to Hybrid Mivrowave and Radiant Heat Freeze Drying System.- Characteristics of Vibro-Fluidized Bed Freeze Drying.- Freeze Drying Characteristics and Transport Properties in Concentrated Coffee Solution System.- Freeze-Drying Mechanisms and Drying Rates Under Various Drying Conditions.- Freeze-Drying of Concentrated Liquid Foods by Back-Face Heating.- Development of New Refrigeration System and Optimum Geometry of the Vapor Condenser for Pharmaceutical Freeze Dryers.- Defrosting of Internal Vapor Condenser During Final Drying and its Application to Food Production Freeze Dryers.- Section VI Drying of Foodstuffs.- Fundamentals of Drying of Foodstuffs.- Advances in Optimization of Food Dehydration With Respect to Quality Retention.- Drying of Foods With Flue Gas From Natural Gas Risk/Benefit.- Acoustic Dewatering and Drying: State of the Art Review.- Over-All Drying-Rate Equations of Foodstuffs.- Enzyme Inactivation During Drying of a Single Droplet.- Flavour Retention on Drying of a Single Droplet Under Various Drying Conditions.- Belt Type From Mat Dryers.- Section VII Drying in Forest Product Industries.- Computer Simulation of a Minton Dryer.- Convective Heat Transfer Under Turbulent Impinging Slot Jet at Large Temperature Differences.- Mathematical Modeling of Wood Drying From Heat and Mass Transfer Fundamentals.- Stochastic Modeling of Lumber Drying in Batch Kilns.- High Temperature Convective Drying of Softwood and Hardwood: Drying Kinetics and Product Quality Interactions.- Section VIII Drying of Coal.- Coupled Drying and Devolatilization of Low Rank Coals in Fluidized Beds: An Experimental and Theoretical Study.- A New Fluidized Bed Dryer For Amorphous Slag.- Upgrading of Low-Grade Coals by Heat Treatment.- Dewatering and Utilization of High Moisture Brown Coal.- Section IX Drying of Agricultural Materials.- Drying of Crop Products With A Shell: Experimental Approach and Modelling. Its Application to Hazelnuts.- Industrial Applications For New Steam Drying Process In Forest And Agricultural Industry.- Energy Evaluation in Grain Drying.- Optimal Drying Conditions of Grains.- Thin-Layer Drying and Rewetting Models to Predict Moisttre Diffusion in Spherical Agricultural Products.- Properties of Brown Rice Kernel for Calculation of Drying Stresses.- Change of Cracked Rice Percentage and Internal Stress of Brown Rice Kernels During Drying Operation.- Section X Industrial Drying Systems.- Drying of Slurry in Bed of Particles Fluidized by Pure Water Vapor.- Dimensioning Heat Pump Driers For Fish Products.- The Application of Microprocessor Technology to Automatic Control of Textile Drying Processes.- Feasibility Study on Dehumidification of Air by Thin Porous Alumina Gel Membrane.- Experimental Study on Application of Paddle Dryers For Sludge Cake Drying.- Section XI Physical Properties Related to Drying.- A New Measurement Method of Liquid Transport Properties.- Determination of Concentration Dependent Diffusion Coefficient From Drying Rates.- Effect of Drying Condition on Structure of Dried Product.- Bulk Thermal Diffusivity Measurement of Grain Rice By New Fast Method.- On the Vapour Transfer Rate in Porous Media Under a Temperature Gradient.- Behavior of Inversion Point Temperature and New Applications of Superheated Vapor Drying.- Section XII Miscellaneous Topics.- Optimization of Heat Pump Dehumidifier.- Limits to the Rate of Drying of Materials.- Author Index.