“…In industrial-scale, such procedure could negatively affect the food material volumetric fraction in the dryer and thus the dryer productivity. This subject has been of special interest during recent decades (Abid, Gibert, & Laguerie, 1990;Cobbinah, Laguerie, & Gibbert, 1987;Grabowski, Mujumdar, Ramaswamy, & Strumillo, 1994;Hatamipour & Mowla, 2002, 2003a, 2003b, 2003c, 2006Lee & Kim, 1993Zhou, Mowla, Wang, & Rudolph, 1998).…”