Index page for: Advanced Drying Technologies

Table of Contents General discussion - conventional and novel drying concepts: need and opportunities 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, contact-sorption drying, sonic drying, pulse-combustion drying, heat-pump drying. Selected techniques for drying and dewatering: Carver-Greenfield process, drying in plasma torch, displacement drying, vapour 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, vacuum microwave drying, filtermat drying, spray-fluid bed-vibrated fluid bed drying, combined filtration and drying, other hybrid technologies. Miscellaneous topics: special drying techniques. Appendix: list of symbols.