Slow drying simulation in thick layers of granular products (Q1113764)

The drying rate equation used in simulation models for low temperature drying which takes the air moisture effects as a humidity potential calculated from adiabatic saturation is valid. We propose to transform the partial differential equations model in dimensionless form with reference parameters in agreement with physical problems. Slow drying allows some simplifications and thus comes to an analytical solution which depends on drying rate. One shows how to obtain the characteristics of the drying and wetting fronts.