MODELISATION PRINCIPLES FOR DRYING OF GELS
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Drying Technology
- Vol. 12 (6), 1245-1262
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07373939408961004
Abstract
When one wants to understand and model the drying of high water content gels, one needs to gather all thermal physical parameters and to derive a physical model based on independently measured parameters. We chose to work experimentally and theoretically on water diffusion and drying of spheres of polyacrylamide gel. We have demonstrated the strong influence of vitreous transition on the relationship of water diffusivity with moisture content. Values of the diffusion coefficient and temperature shift factor for diffusion have been proposed. Convective and micro-wave drying kinetics show the presence of a drying phase purely specific to radiation absorption. Finally, we have proposed a mathematical model containing independent physical parameters, which' not only predicts mass fluxes but also analyses critical physical phenomena.Keywords
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