Books

· Advanced Drying Technologies: T. Kudra (Canada) and A.S. Mujumdar (Singapore), Marcel Dekker, N.Y. In print. Expected publication date: July 2001.

· Handbook of Postharvest Technology: Marcel Dekker, N.Y. (In Press). Edited works. Editors: A. Chakraverty, IIT, Kharagpur, India; A.S. Mujumdar, NUS/ McGill, Singapore/Canada; G.S.V. Raghavan, McGill University, Canada; H.S. Ramaswamy, McGill University, Canada.

· Drying Technology in Agriculture and Food Science. Editor A.S. Mujumdar, Oxford IBH and Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA (2001).

· Drying of Products of Biological Origin, Editor A.S. Mujumdar, Oxford IBH and Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA. In preparation (due June 2002).

· Handbook of Industrial Drying, 3^rd Edition, Editor A.S. Mujumdar, Marcel Dekker, 55 Chapters; fully revised and enhanced. Due early 2003.

Journals

· Drying Technology – An International Journal, Marcel Dekker, N.Y., USA. Ten issues/year. Note: Typeset and e-journal as of January 2001. Editor-in-Chief, A.S. Mujumdar.

· Theme issue on Drying for Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing, Australia. Editor, A.S. Mujumdar, NUS and Guohua Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong

Research Areas

Ø Heat/Mass Transfer

· Modelling/experimental studies of intermittent microwave/radiant heating for drying of heat-sensitive products in heat pump dryers

· Spouted bed drying – hydrodynamics/drying

· Novel dryers – impinging streams; drying of slurries in inverted jet-fluidized beds of inert particles; cyclic vacuum/pressure drying at ambient conditions; superheated steam drying of foods

· Impinging jet heat transfer – effects of cross-flow, physical property variation etc.

· Phase change materials – heat transfer in spiral heat exchangers; simulation

· Micro-impinging jet heat transfer – simulation

Ø Electro-osmotic dewatering

Ø Micro-scale heat transfer in complex channels, explosive boiling at micro-scale