Abstract
A procedure is presented to determine the moisture diffusivity for drying from measured moisture concentration profiles. From error analysis it is shown that the applied space grid for scanning and the one-dimensional resolution of the NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) method used for the measurements had a minor influence on the accuracy of the determination of the moisture diffusivity. The inaccuracy was dominated by experimental noise and inhomogeneities in the porosity of the materials under investigation. A receding drying front method is presented to determine the moisture diffusivity at low moisture contents: here the moisture transport is dominated by vapour transport, which limits the overall drying rate. The method uses the velocity of the receding drying front to approximate the moisture diffusivity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1273-1280 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1996 |