A5034395941- Food Drying and Modeling
- Microencapsulation and Drying Processes
- Heat Transfer Mechanisms
- Freezing and Crystallization Processes
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Food composition and properties
- Heat Transfer and Optimization
- Microbial Inactivation Methods
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Polymer Nanocomposite Synthesis and Irradiation
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
- Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Phytase and its Applications
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
- Radiative Heat Transfer Studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
- nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
- Textile materials and evaluations
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
2016-2025
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
2019
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology
2017
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
2006-2013
University of Waterloo
2009
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
2008
Abstract Carrot slices of 0.03 m diameter and 0.005 thickness were dried in direct, indirect mixed mode type natural convection solar dryers. Thin layer drying behavior carrot was studied using 10 empirical semi‐empirical mathematical models. Wang Singh model described the accurately with maximum values coefficient determination ( R 2 ) minimum reduced chi‐square χ ), root mean square error (RMSE). The effective diffusivity D eff convective mass transfer h ranged from 2.59 × −8 −6.36 /s 3.15...
In situ reaction and dispersion of the resulting gold in form nanoparticles (NPs) a reactive polymer medium, such as poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) molecules hot water, are explored to devise composite Au–PVA structure self-standing films. The Au-NPs (0–2 wt%) tailor violet purple yellowish color films from colorless base polymer. A distinct surface interface (of thickness 2–5 nm) core (20–30 nm diameter) is resolved transmission electron microscope images. x-ray photoelectron spectrum (XPS)...
In the present work, thin layer drying kinetics of potato during natural convection solar was investigated experimentally. Cylindrical samples with length 50 mm and varying diameter 8, 10 13 were dried in an in-house designed fabricated laboratory scale mixed-mode dryer. Thirteen different thin-layer mathematical models fitted to experimental moisture ratio (MR) data. The obtained results indicated that Modified Page model could satisfactorily describe curve cylinders higher value R2 lower...