Drying is a very important industrial operation in society. In drying, solute may dissolve in an aqueous solvent, a nonaqueous solvent or a mixture of solvents. Many mathematical models have been published previously to ...

Among the drying models available in the literature, the REA model (which was first proposed in 1996) is semi-empirical. It was described based upon a basic physical chemistry principle. The ‘‘extraction of water from ...