@article{ulatesegura2014drying,
  title = {Drying Kinetics as a Method for the Evaluation of Relative Diffusivity of Water in Porous Biomass Materials},
  author = {Diego G. Ulate-Segura and Julio F. Mata-Segreda},
  year = 2014,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/IJREB/2014/970016/},
  journal = {International Journal of Renewable Energy & Biofuels},
  volume = (2014),
  pages = 7,
  doi = 10.5171/2014.970016,
  abstract = {Differential drying curves at constant temperature provide a means of assessing the relative diffusivity of water in porous solids such as mineral and lignocellulosic biomass materials. Determination of the critical extent of drying (xc) at which there is a kinetic transition from constant drying rate to decreasing drying rate allows the comparison of water diffusivity between materials.  The mean xc value of two porous mineral materials and two ion-exchange resins was 0.68±0.08, and for six residual lignocellulosic biomasses xc was 0.27±0.07, a significant higher than two-fold difference (p < 0.01).  The findings are discussed from a microscopic structural viewpoint.},
  keywords = {Residual agricultural biomasses; drying kinetics; water diffusivity},
  note = Article ID: 970016
}