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ISSN: 0737-3937 print=1532-2300 online
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2014.983704
Book Review
Handbook of Industrial Drying, Fourth Edition Edited by
A. S. Mujumdar. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL; 2015. ISBN:
978-1-4665-9665-8.
The fourth edition of Handbook of Industrial Drying has
been published in more expanded and updated version,
covering much more area and recent developments in
drying technologies. It includes 16 additional new chapters
compared to the third edition. When the first edition of
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the Handbook was published in 1987, it was successful in
fulfilling the gap of a wide-ranging knowledge resource
on drying of food and biological materials. This book
became very popular among students, teachers, and indus-
try personnel who found this to be a single source of
knowledge for teaching as well as operation and design
of new dryers. I had a first-hand experience of usefulness
this Handbook back then when I was a Ph.D. student.
The presentations and illustrations in the Handbook were
advanced and of high quality, yet simple and easy to follow
for beginners and rich in content to satisfy the experts in the
field. Through all three previous editions, the Handbook
gained high reputation among all relevant stakeholders.
In the course of 25 years, the fourth edition has been
released. This edition has well taken care of new develop-
ments during its quarter of a century journey, and it still
looks as fresh in content as it appeared in its first edition
in 1987.
Drying has become an integral part of many processes, as
it enables one to convert biological and nonbiological pro-
ducts into a stable form to extend their usable lives, decrease
their volumes, and at the same time make the products
easier and more convenient to use. Expansion of drying
industries in the past decade is reflected by the range of
dried food products that can be seen in supermarkets.
Depending on the types of the products, the physical forms
of raw materials and their composition as well as the final
required product forms (fine powders to large bulk materi-
als), different drying processes are required and have been
developed. Drying process requires knowledge of science,
technology, and engineering. Therefore, ‘‘drying’’ associ-
ates various inter- and multidisciplinary knowledge. In the
past few years, ‘‘quality’’ has also been the focus, therefore
increasingly more research and development has been
undertaken on the materials’ properties. To meet this need,
the Handbook continues to integrate drying fundamentals,
design of dryers, and drying technology of wide range of
products (both biological and nonbiological materials).
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The contents of the Handbook are divided into four
main sections: drying mechanism, drying methods, product
drying, and dryer control for safety and energy savings.
Each section comprises several chapters covering various
specific topics spanning the aspects of science, technology,
and engineering of drying. The performance in the form of
product quality as influenced by the drying processes has
been well integrated in the Handbook; it has indeed unsur-
passed every subject in relation to drying of wide variety of
materials. There is no other comparable book in the field
that is so comprehensive and broad.
The first section of the book covers the principles and
mechanism of drying, including basic calculations, model-
ing, and simulations. The mass transport properties in dry-
ing of solids and the experimental techniques to determine
moisture, heat, and mass transfer coefficients and sorption
isotherms are described. This section also introduces a
chapter that demonstrates the use of simple general purpose
spreadsheets (Excel as an example) in process modeling and
designing a dryer. This is quite interesting for the industry
that is always willing to apply a simplified method that
replaces the need for advanced knowledge of mathematics
and iteration times required during simulations. Spread-
sheets have already been established in many industries in
mass and energy balance calculations in drying and process
performance assessment.
The second section of the book is dedicated to the full
description and fundamentals of different dryers used to
dry solid and liquid materials. It contains 18 chapters, each
covering one typical type of dryer. The physical modeling
and methods of performance evaluation of drying systems
have been included in most of the chapters. The types of
the dryers and drying systems included in this section are
indirect drying, spray drying, drum drying, freeze drying,
rotary drying, fluidized bed drying, microwave and dielec-
tric drying, infrared drying, solar drying, superheated steam
drying, impingement drying, flash drying, pulsed combus-
tion drying, etc. It is fascinating to find that the Handbook
covers a wide range of dryers that have been used across
various fields to dry diverse types of materials. There is no
other book that presents such a huge range of dryers and
their comprehensive applications. The section also includes
some novel dryers and special drying techniques that have
been introduced recently. As spray drying is one of the most
important drying systems used in many industries, the
theoretical modeling of spray drying processes has been
given a special place as a separate chapter.
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The third section is the biggest section, which constitutes
28 chapters dedicated to the drying systems used to dry spe-
cific materials ranging from food to waste sludge. It includes
a large range of materials, principally food materials such as
grain, seafood, fruits and vegetables, herbal medicine, tea,
potatoes, etc. The drying systems for pharmaceuticals,
enzymes, and proteins are also included. Similarly, drying
technologies of ceramics, coal, nano-size particles, peat and
biofuels, pulp and paper, fibrous materials, biomass, timber=
wood, and polymers are all included. The section constitutes
a wealth of information that is quite useful for researchers
and industries that need to identify the types of dryers they
could consider for the drying of a variety of materials.
The fourth section of the book is dedicated to other
important aspects of the dryer system and drying operations.
This section constitutes 13 chapters. The subjects covered are
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controls, software for dryer calculations, methods to
improve energy efficiency, life cycle assessment, cost-
estimation methods, emission control, and potential hazards,
safety issues, and dryer design considerations. Other miscel-
laneous topics are also included, such as crystallisation and
drying of crystals, solid–liquid separation, pre-treatment
prior to drying, supercritical fluid assisted drying, heat pump
drying, and dehydration during frying of foods.
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This is a contributed Handbook edited by well-
recognized scientist and drying guru Prof. Arun
Mujumdar, who has been a global leader in the field. The
contributors of the Handbook are also internationally
very well recognized researchers and industrial experts;
therefore the quality of the Handbook is obviously excellent
as expected. The Handbook carries a lot of information,
thus it is as heavy in content as in physical weight. As the
Handbook is quite voluminous, it can be inconvenient to
some readers; therefore, the future printing should consider
use of thinner paper quality without compromising the
physical strength of the paper.
From the point of view of contents and quality of
presentation, the Handbook resembles the well-known
Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook. The Handbook of
Industrial Drying is recommended to every sector that
is associated with drying, such as teaching, research,
product production, design, and manufacturing of
dryers. In summary, I would say that this is a ‘‘bible’’ of
drying.
Bhesh Bhandari
The University of Queensland, Australia
b.bhandari@uq.edu.au