Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This five-volume handbook provides a comprehensive overview of all important aspects of modern drying technology, including only advanced results.
In this first volume diverse model types for the drying of products and the design of drying processes (short-cut methods, homogenized, pore network, and continuous thermo-mechanical approaches) are treated, along with computational fluid dynamics, population balances, and process systems simulation tools. Emphasis is put on scale transitions.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Comprehensive drying models based on volume averaging
• Background, Application And Perspective
• Microscopic Foundations of the Macroscopic Formulation
• The Macroscopic Set of Equations Physical Phenomena Embedded in the Equations Computational
• Strategy to Solve the Comprehensive Set of Macroscopic Equations Possibilities Offered by this Modeling
• Approach: Convective Drying Possibilities Offered by this Modeling
• Approach: Less-Common Drying Configurations Homogenization as a Way to Supply the Code with Physical Parameters
• The Multiscale Approach PORE-NETWORK MODELS: A POWERFUL TOOL TO STUDY DRYING AT THE PORE LEVEL AND UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURE ON DRYING KINETICS
• Introduction Isothermal Drying Model Model Extensions Influence of Pore Structure
• Towards an Assessment of Continuous Models
• Continuous Thermomechanical Models Using Volume-Averaging Theory
• Introduction Modeling Simulation Liquid Pressure as Driving Force Conclusions
• Continuous Thermohydromechanical Model Using The Theory Of Mixtures
• Preliminaries Global Balance Equations Constitutive Equations in the Skeletal Frame of Reference
• Rate Equations for Heat and Mass Transfer Differential Equations for Heat and Mass Transfer Thermomechanical
• Equations for a Drying Body Drying of a Cylindrical Sample made of Kaolin Final Remarks
• CFD In Drying Technology - Spray-Dryer Simulation
• Introduction The Euler-Lagrange Approach: An Extended Model for Spray-Dryer
• Calculations Droplet-Drying Models Collisions of Particles Example of a Spray-Dryer Calculation Prediction of Product Properties
• Summary Numerical Methods On Population Balances
• Introduction Pure Breakage Pure Aggregation Pure Growth Combined Aggregation and Breakage
• Combined Aggregation and Nucleation Combined Growth and Aggregation Combined Growth and Nucleation
• Multidimensional Population Balances
• Process-Systems Simulation Tools
• Introduction Numerical Calculation Procedures Heat and Mass Balances Scoping Design
• Methods Scaling Methods Detailed Design Models Ancillary Calculations Process Simulators
• Expert Systems and Decision-Making Tools Knowledge Bases and Qualitative Information Commercialization of Drying
• Software Conclusions

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Professor Dr. Ing. Evangelos Tsotsas holds the Chair of Thermal Process Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) since 1994. Prior to this, he was a Senior Process Specialist at the Dow Chemical Company. He has authored about 250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and is the recipient of the Hosokawa Award for Innovation and the ProcessNet Award for Excellence in Drying Research. He serves in various functions in organizations such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the European and German Working Party on Drying.

Professor Arun S. Mujumdar has been Professor of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering at the McGill University, Canada, and at the National University of Singapore. He has authored 2 books and over 60 book chapters, edited or co-edited over 50 books including the Handbook of Industrial Drying.Member of various professional and scientific associations, he was recently conferred Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Lodz, Poland, and the University of Lyon, France.