Announcement and Call for Papers Special Issue on Grain Drying and Storage Technologies

摘要

This special theme issue of Drying Technology will be devoted to the scientific, engineering, and technological developments in the area of grain drying and storage technologies. Like most biomaterials, cereal grains are living;i.e., they maintain metabolic processes in an attempt to preserve their natural state during drying and storage. A storage bin, an in-bin dryer, or even a mechanical dryer is itself a temporary ecosystem in which many processes such as heat and mass transfer, degradation of material quality, and metabolism take place. All of the above phenomena characterize special features of grain drying and storage. We invite papers on R&D of these special fields.