Investigation of the Energy Efficiency of Electrohydrodynamic Drying under High Humidity Conditions

Table 2

Energy required for a grain dryer to dehydrate 1 kg of water.

Research	Target	Drying method	Energy required to evaporate water (kJ/kg water)
Durance and Wang [27]	Tomato	Air drying	29,900
Durance and Wang [27]	Tomato	Vacuum microwave drying	8600
Billiris et al. [28]	Rice	Hot wind	4,531 (average of eight trials)