Instrumentation Techniques and Analyses of Bioactive Compounds in Different Dried Fruit Products

It is well known that the unit operation of drying is a highly energy-intensive operation encountered in diverse industrial sectors ranging from agricultural processing, to ceramics, chemicals, mineral processing, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, coal polymer, food, and forest products industries, as well as waste management. Drying also determines the quality of the final dried products. Meeting the need to make drying technologies sustainable and cost-effective via the application of modern scientific techniques is the goal of academic as well as industrial R&D activities around the world. Drying is a truly multi- and interdisciplinary area. Over the last four decades, the scientific and technical literature on drying have seen exponential growth. The continuously rising interest in this field is also evident from the success of numerous international conferences devoted to drying science and technology. The establishment of this new series of books, entitled Advances in Drying Science and Technology, is designed to provide authoritative and critical reviews and monographs focusing on current developments as well as future needs. It is expected that books in this series will be valuable to academic researchers as well as industry personnel involved in any aspect of drying and dewatering. The series will also encompass themes and topics closely associated with drying operations, e.g., mechanical dewatering, energy savings in drying, environmental aspects, life-cycle analysis, techno-economics of drying, electro-technologies, control and safety aspects, and so on.