Preface -- An overview of innovation in industrial drying: current status and R&D needs -- Modern methods of drying nanomaterials -- Internal heating effect and enhancement of drying of ceramics by microwave heating with dynamic control -- The vapour-liquid interface and stresses in dried bodies -- Multiscale aspects of heat and mass transfer during drying -- Theoretical models of vegetable drying by convection -- Analysis of the mechanism of counter-current spray drying -- Modern modelling methods in drying -- Non-linear heat and mass transfer during convective drying of kaolin cylinder under non-steady conditions -- Effects of the method of identification of the diffusion coefficient on accuracy of modeling bound water transfer in wood -- Stresses in dried wood. Modelling and experimental identification -- Kinetics of atmospheric freeze-drying of apple -- Microwave drying of various shape particles suspended in an air stream -- Periodic fluctuations of flow and porosity in spouted beds -- Modeling of vacuum desorption of multicomponent moisture in freeze drying -- Optimization of fine solid drying in bubble fluidized bed.