Drying
The Manual of Drying Technology is now nearing the end of the
conversion and expansion process. In a few cases, existing State of
the Art Reports (SAR's) and Design Reports (DR's) are still current
and are not scheduled for immediate conversion, but have been
incorporated into the manual structure.
The overall layout is as follows. Volume I is the Introduction
to Drying Technology giving an overview of the fundamental
principles, techniques and equipment for drying. Volume II is on
dryer selection. Volumes III-VIII cover each of the main types of
dryer, including equipment, theory and design methods. Volumes IX
and X cover aspects specific to the material being dried, such as
kinetics (drying rates), equilibria and product quality. Volume XI
is a generic survey of operational aspects including control,
instrumentation and troubleshooting. Finally Volumes XII and XIII
cover experimental techniques and research results.