Drying multistage

The term multistage drying refers to any process that uses high-temperature drying in combination with aeration or natural-air drying. An outline of two such processes, dryeration and combination drying, follows. 

Spets, J.-P. and AhtUa, P. Reduction of organic emissions by using a multistage drying system for wood-based biomasses. Drying Technology 22(3) 541-561, 2004. 

Table 1.3 Multistage Drying in the Dairy Industry Combination of Conventional Technologies...

In terms of the dried product quality, it was noted that the shrimp which had undergone multistage drying (especially SSD/HPD) suffered significantly less shrinkage than the shrimp dried only by SSD (see Tab. 3.2). This was due to the fact that superheated steam-dried shrimp was exposed to the high-temperature... 

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