“…Therefore, the moisture gradient resulting from this migration of moisture from within the heated product, where it has high vapor pressure, through micropores to the moisture surface, where it is evaporated into the surrounding atmosphere as water vapor with a lower partial pressure. Drying solid products/objects is a very broad area and many experimental and theoretical investigations have appeared in the literature e.g., (Akiyama, Liu, & Hayakawa, 1997;Dincer & Dost, 1996;Dincer, Sahin, Yilbas, Al-Farayedhi, & Hussain, 2000;Dincer, 1998a;Dincer, 1998b;Dolinskiy, Dorfman, & Davydenko, 1991;Izumi & Hayakawa, 1995;Jia, Sun, & Cao, 2000;Kudra & Mujumdar, 1995;Perre, Moser, & Martin, 1993;Ratti & Mujumdar, 1997;Seyed-Yagoobi, Bell, & Asensio, 1992;Sun & Marrero, 1996). As indicated recently Sahin et al, 2002), determination of drying process parameters in terms of drying coefficient and lag factor; and drying moisture transfer parameters in terms of moisture diffusivity and moisture transfer coefficient of solid products subject to air drying is of great practical importance.…”