“…In the literature, most of the studies on smoking or drying processes of meats are paying attention to transfer phenomena at the product scale (Comaposada, Gou, Pakowski, & Arnau, 2000;Sheridan & Shilton, 2002). Heat and mass transfers are often taken into account through diffusive models or through drying and smoking kinetics (Pavon-Melendez, Hernandez, Salgado, & Garcia, 2002;Sabadini, Carvalho Junior, Sobral, & Hubinger, 1998;Simal, Femenia, Garcia-Pascual, & Rossello, 2003;Teixeira & Tobinaga, 1998).…”