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Drying is one of the fundamental manufacture stages of many products. Almost every industry has wet products that have to be dried as, for example, powders, food products, polymers, wood, ceramics, etc. One estimates that the annual costs of drying constitute a dozen or so percent of total manufacturing costs.
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Kowalski, S.J. (2003). Characterization of drying processes. In: Thermomechanics of Drying Processes. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36405-4_3
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