A new model for thermodynamic analysis of a drying process (Q1434603)

The authors develop a new thermodynamic model for energy analysis of the drying process of moist solids, and determine the energy efficiency as a function of heat and mass transfer parameters. An illustrative example is presented to highlight the importance of the present model for the drying process analysis and optimization. The authors emphasize that (to their best knowledge) the present work is the first study incorporating heat and mass transfer parameters into the energy model and energy efficiency.