This titling project aims to design and construction of a mixed solar dryer for yellow hard corn by an indirect solar panel heat, which generates thermal energy in a collector and this is transferred to grain by air flowing ...

The present work dealt with a low cost solar dryer made for food dehydration. The objective was to study and analyze the technical characteristics, as well as to demonstrate the viability of its use in drying the chosen ...

A mathematical model able to predict solid and drying gas temperature and moisture content axial profiles along a direct contact rotary dryer was developed. The study was focused on the drying kinetics based on phenomenological ...

Adaptive and conventional control of a direct rotary dryer has been assessed through simulations. A dynamic model of the process was developed specifically for this purpose. The model is based on mass and energy balances ...

The scarcity of farmland, reducing the supply of irrigation water and lack of technologies for conservation, makes the globalized world facing serious difficulties in the production of food for its population. The most ...

The direct measurement of the moisture content of dried products would be more interesting for process control purposes. However, the most common procedures for such measurement are either slow or expensive for industrial ...