chapter 1. Advances in industrial heat pump technologies and applications / Vasile Minea -- chapter 2. Modeling, simulation, and optimization of heat pump drying systems / Lu Aye -- chapter 3. Advances in heat pump-assisted agro-food drying technologies / Conrad Oswald Perera -- chapter 4. Advances in heat pump-assisted drying of fruits / Sze Pheng Ong -- chapter 5. Advances in heat pump-assisted technologies for drying of vegetables / Chung Lim Law and Ho Hsien Chen -- chapter 6. Drying of fruits and vegetables : the impact of different drying methods on product quality / Y. Baradey, M.N.A. Hawlader, A.F. Ismail, and M. Hrairi -- chapter 7. Numerical modeling of heat pump-assisted contact drying / Zhifa Sun and Will Catton -- chapter 8. Advances in dehumidifier timber drying in New Zealand / Gerald Carrington.