5. Texturing operations

Many industrial processes now increasingly involve texturing and restructuring operations to modify physical properties, induce new functional behaviors and, sometimes, lead to specific intensification of transfer phenomena. The field of application of these operations is thus much broader.

More specifically, the structure of many natural materials, mainly biological, plays an essential role in the kinetics and progress of dehydration operations.

Thus, during many types of dewatering operations, the compactness of the solid matrix continues to increase as a result of the shrinkage phenomenon. Indeed, as long as temperature and moisture content are high enough, the rheological behavior is of the rubbery type, and the glass transition T _g (and therefore the rigidified behavior) often only occurs...