Thermal dehydration of some forage grasses for livestock feeding: Effect of different methods on moisture diffusivity and the quality of dried leaves

Drying kinetics and thermo-economic analysis of drying hot water blanched ginger rhizomes in a hybrid composite solar dryer with heat exchanger

“…The constraints were based on maximizing the drying rate and collector efficiency (decimal) while minimizing the drying temperature and choosing the highest desirability factor using the Design Expert 13 software. This method has been used by Ihediwa et al [ 49 ] in the optimization of drying parameters for agricultural products. The results of the surface plot for the four treatment scenarios for the ginger rhizomes are presented in Fig.…”