This paper discusses the results of mathematical modeling of the interrelated processes of heat and moisture transfer in vegetable materials in the process of their convective drying with the use of microwave radiation and of experimental investigations of the influence of the operating parameters of the process on the drying dynamics and kinetics.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 85, No. 5, pp. 951–958, September–October, 2012.
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Akulich, P.V., Temruk, A.V. & Akulich, A.V. Modeling and experimental investigation of the heat and moisture transfer in the process of microwave-convective drying of vegetable materials. J Eng Phys Thermophy 85, 1034–1042 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-012-0744-4
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