Experimental and modelling study of thin layer drying kinetics of pellets millet flour

Mathematical Modelling of Thin Layer Drying Kinetics of Biodegradable Pellets

The deoiled rice bran, industrial waste (paddy husk, potato peels and banana peels) and plasticizers were added to develop pellets after extrusion for their further use in preparing molds (pots) for horticultural use. Pellets were prepared by extrusion technology using glycerol and cashew nut shell liquid as plasticizers and were dried in a chamber with constant air circulation (1.5 m/sec). Dry...

Experimental study and mathematical modeling of thin layer drying of rhubarb (Rheum ribes L.)

In this study rhubarb stem slices were dried as single layers with thickness of 3 mm in the inlet air temperature range of 50-70  and air velocity of 1 ± 0.2 m/s in a laboratory scale cabinet dryer. The effect of drying air temperature on the drying characteristics was determined and the relationship between the drying parameters with temperature and moisture content was examined. Moisture tran...

Mathematical Modelling of Thin Layer Drying Kinetics of Onion Slices Hot-air Convection, Infrared Radiation and Combined Infrared-Convection Drying

Modelling of olive cake thin-layer drying process

Olive cake is a sub-product of the mechanical olive oil extraction industry, which consists of pit and pulp of the olive fruit, olive oil and vegetable water. It has been using for direct combustion in bakeries and olive oil mills due to its energy content. However, the initial moisture content of olive cake is approximately 44.78% ± 0.5 (wet basis), and this has to be reduced to about 5% to re...

investigation of kinetics and energy consumption of thin layer drying of corn

in this study thin layer drying of corn in a convective dryer was investigated at air temperatures of 50, 60 and 70ºc and air flow rates of 1, 1.4 and 1.8 kg min-1. experiments were performed in completely randomized design (crd). the effect of air temperature and flow rate on drying time, drying rate, effective diffusivity coefficient and activation energy were studied. results showed that the...