Modern Drying Technology, Volume 1: Computational Tools at Different Scales

This five–volume handbook provides a comprehensive overview of all important aspects of modern drying technology, including only advanced results.
Volume 1 deals with computational tools at different scales, including homogenized, pore network and continuous thermo–mechanical models, computational fluid dynamics and population balances, as well as process systems simulation tools.
High–level, cutting–edge results on a mandatory industrial process.

Spis treści:
COMPREHENSIVE DRYING MODELS BASED ON VOLUME AVERAGING. BACKGROUND, APPLICATION AND PERSPECTIVE
Microscopic Foundations of the Macroscopic Formulation
The Macroscopic Set of Equations
Physical Phenomena Embedded in the Equations
Computational Strategy to Solve the Comprehensive Set of Macroscopic Equations
Possibilities Offered by this Modeling Approach: Convective Drying
Possibilities Offered by this Modeling Approach: Less–Common Drying Configurations
Homogenization as a Way to Supply the Code with Physical Parameters
The Multiscale Approach
PORE–NETWORK MODELS: A POWERFUL TOOL TO STUDY DRYING AT THE PORE LEVEL AND UNDERSTAND THE INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURE ON DRYING KINETICS
Introduction
Isothermal Drying Model
Model Extensions
Influence of Pore Structure
Towards an Assessment of Continuous Models
CONTINUOUS THERMOMECHANICAL MODELS USING VOLUME–AVERAGING THEORY
Introduction
Modeling
Simulation
Liquid Pressure as Driving Force
Conclusions
CONTINUOUS THERMOHYDROMECHANICAL MODEL USING THE THEORY OF MIXTURES
Preliminaries
Global Balance Equations
Constitutive Equations in the Skeletal Frame of Reference
Rate Equations for Heat and Mass Transfer
Differential Equations for Heat and Mass Transfer
Thermomechanical Equations for a Drying Body
Drying of a Cylindrical Sample made of Kaolin
Final Remarks
CFD IN DRYING TECHNOLOGY –
SPRAY–DRYER SIMULAT ION
Introduction
The Euler–Lagrange Approach: An Extended Model for Spray–Dryer Calculations
Droplet–Drying Models
Collisions of Particles
Example of a Spray–Dryer Calculation
Prediction of Product Properties
Summary
NUMERICAL METHODS ON POPULATION BALANCES
Introduction
Pure Breakage
Pure Aggregation
Pure Growth
Combined Aggregation and Breakage
Combined Aggregation and Nucleation
Combined Growth and Aggregation
Combined Growth and Nucleation
Multidimensional Population Balances
PROCESS–SYSTEMS SIMULATION TOOLS
Introduction
Numerical Calculation Procedures
Heat and Mass Balances
Scoping Design Methods
Scaling Methods
Detailed Design Models
Ancillary Calculations
Process Simulators
Expert Systems and Decision–Making Tools
Knowledge Bases and Qualitative Information
Commercialization of Drying Software
Conclusions


Nota biograficzna:
Professor Dr. Ing. Evangelos Tsotsas born 1959, Thessaloniki/Greece; PhD: 1985, Karlsruhe/Germany; Habilitation: 1990, Karlsruhe; till 1994: The Dow Chemical Company; since 1994: Professor of Thermal Process Engineering at Otto–von–Guericke–University Magdeburg; 1998–2002: Dean of the Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering; elected German Research Council (DFG) reviewer, member of the selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the European Multiphase Systems Institute, and the International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer; Chairman of Working Parties on Drying of the EFCE and GVC; 2002: Award for innovation in drying research.
Professor Arun S. Mujumdar; PhD McGill University, Montreal; Professor of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, until July 2000; Visiting Professor at numerous universities; Honorary Professor of five universities in China; President and Principal Consultant, Exergex Corp., Canada 1989–2000; consult ant for over 60 companies; authored 2 books and over 60 book chapters, edited or co–edited over 50 books and journals; published more than 300 research papers, presented over 200 conference papers; external reviewer for various research councils; founder, chair or member of organizing panels for numerous major international conferences; elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Chemical Institute of Canada and Inst. Chem. Eng. (India); member of AIChE, CPPA, Sigma Xi; awarded Senior Fellowship by Japan Society for Promotion of Science (1988 and 1996), Innovation in Drying Award, IDS ′86, MIT, The Procter & Gamble Award for Excellence in Drying Research (1998); named Distinguished Scientists of the 20th Century, International Man of the Year by International Biographical Institute, Cambridge (1999); listed in 1000 World Leaders of Influence by the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, USA (2000).