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City of London Polytechnic
An experimental and theoretical investigation of the migration of moisture in cocoa beans
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis work is essentially an investigation of non-convective moisture movement as the result of a temperature gradient in hygroscopic porous materials, in particular, cocoa beans. The aim of the research has been to determine experimentally the bulk moisture diffusion coefficient for cocoa, and, by quantifying it, to investigate the contribution of such diffusion to wetting and mould damage that has occurred on the surface of cargoes during shipment from West Africa to Northern Europe.
Degree
thesis:*- Name dc:type.qualificationname
- phd
- Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
- doctoral
- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- City of London Polytechnic
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1990
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Suddaby, Anthony J. R.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Grantnumber
- N/A
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:repository.londonmet.ac.uk:2993