Simulation of Contact Drying

To elucidate the effect of various parameters, TPD simulations were performed under similar operative conditions as that of the experiments [12] with variation of one single parameter while keeping the others unchanged. In order to maintain the 

TABLE 14.1 Thermo-Physical Properties of the Model Compounds 

FIGURE 14.5 lUustrates the effect of bed depth by showing the (a) temperature profile of the bed and (b) loss of solvent content =5rpm and T =338K. Adapted from Ref. [12] with permission. Copyright 2013, Elsevier. 

FIGURE 14.6 Illustrates the impact of speed using the temporal profiles of (a) bed temper-ature and (b) solvent content for different agitation speeds (5rpm, 15rpm, and 25rpm)  

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