scholarly journals DRYING CHARACTERISTICS OF OKRA PODS DURING DRYING PROCESS IN A HOME MICROWAVE OVEN

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 341-358
Author(s):  
Abd El-Wahab S. Kassem ◽  
Abdulwahed M. Aboukarima ◽  
Hamza A. Morghany
2013 ◽  
Vol 724-725 ◽  
pp. 296-299
Author(s):  
Chun Xiang Chen ◽  
Xiao Qian Ma ◽  
Xiao Cong Li ◽  
Wei Ping Qin

To find out an alternative of coal saving, a kind of microalgae, Chlorella vulgaris (C. vulgaris) which is widespread in fresh water was studied by digital blast drying system. The effect of the moisture content, drying thickness and temperature on the drying process of C. vulgaris were investigated. The results indicated that when the drying temperature is high, the moisture content is low and the material thickness is small, the drying time is short. The drying process of C.vulgaris can be divided into two stages, and the mass loss is mainly occurred in the second stage . The results will provide guidance for design of drying process and dryer of microalgae.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wengang Hao ◽  
Shuonan Liu ◽  
Baoqi Mi ◽  
Yanhua Lai

A new hybrid solar dryer was designed and constructed in this study, which consisted of a flat-plate solar collector with dual-function (DF-FPSC), drying chamber with glass, fan etc. The DF-FPSC was firstly applied in drying agricultural products. The innovative application of hybrid solar dryer can control the drying chamber air temperature within a suitable range by different operation strategies. Drying experiments for lemon slices in the hybrid solar dryer were conducted by comparing open sun drying (OSD). Eight mathematical models of drying characteristics were employed to select the most suitable model for describing the drying curves of lemon slices. Furthermore, energy, exergy economic and environment (4E) analysis were also adopted to analyze the drying process of lemon slices. The results show that under the same experimental condition, the drying capability of the hybrid solar dryer was stronger than that of OSD. Meanwhile, it was found that the Two term and Wang and Singh models were the most suitable for fitting the lemon slices’ drying characteristics inside the hybrid solar dryer. The drying chamber air temperature can be controlled under about 60 °C during the process of lemon slices’ drying. The experimental results show the feasibility and validity of the proposed hybrid solar dryer.


Solar Energy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minghu Cui

An experimental setup, a mini-cabinet with reflector at its top, has been designed to study the drying process of jujube fruit by the convection and the solar radiation with hot air convection. The research experimentally investigated the drying characteristics and behavior of heat and mass transfer. Also, drying curves were analyzed. It demonstrated that solar energy could play an important role in promoting heat and mass transfers and saves energy consumed. The optimum conditions of appropriated temperature and humidity were obtained to save energy in solar energy convection drying process.


Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senadeera ◽  
Adiletta ◽  
Önal ◽  
Di Matteo ◽  
Russo

Drying characteristics of persimmon, cv. “Rojo Brillante”, slabs were experimentally determined in a hot air convective drier at drying temperatures of 45, 50, 55, 60, and 65 °C at a fixed air velocity of 2.3 m/s. It was observed that the drying temperature affected the drying time, shrinkage, and colour. Four empirical mathematical models namely, Enderson and Pabis, Page, Logarithmic, and Two term, were evaluated in order to deeply understand the drying process (moisture ratio). The Page model described the best representation of the experimental drying data at all investigated temperatures (45, 50, 55, 60, 65 °C). According to the evaluation of the shrinkage models, the Quadratic model provided the best representation of the volumetric shrinkage of persimmons as a function of moisture content. Overall, higher drying temperature (65 °C) improved the colour retention of dried persimmon slabs.


2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 2643-2647
Author(s):  
Jin Ping Li ◽  
Meng Yao Li ◽  
Wen Yao ◽  
Ni Wang

Combination of oven and microwave and only oven are two ways to study municipal sludge,and it investigates whether different size, microwave drying pretreatment, pretreatment time and oven temperature characteristics have effect on drying characteristics. The results shows that: using microwave to dry sludge need short time, the drying rate is fast, combination of oven and microwave has higher drying rate and lower energy consumption than only oven.


Author(s):  
Milad Farzad ◽  
Mengqiao Yang ◽  
Jamal Seyed Yagoobi ◽  
B. Tilley

Drying of moist porous media such as paper, pulp and food products is one of the most energy intensive processes in industry. Impinging jet nozzles are commonly used in various drying processes. There have been many efforts to improve the transport characteristics of impinging jet nozzles. Utilizing innovative Slot Jet Reattachment (SJR) nozzle is an approach to make the drying process more efficient. This is mainly because these nozzles overcome the high flow rate constraint associated with the traditional Slot Jet (SJ) nozzle. In this paper, the drying characteristics of the SJR nozzle with exit angles of +20˚ and +45˚ are experimentally investigated. The samples used are snack cookies. The results are compared with those of SJ nozzle under the same mass flowrate. The results indicate that significant enhancements in drying rates are achievable with both SJR nozzles compared to SJ nozzle.Keywords: Drying; Porous Food Snack; Slot Jet Reattachment Nozzle; Slot Jet Nozzle  


2017 ◽  
Vol 872 ◽  
pp. 360-372
Author(s):  
Zhi Wei Mai ◽  
Bi Ying Wang ◽  
Chang You Li

This study aims to review variation pattern of moisture content ratio of grains in deep-bed drying process, guide the drying technology design, realize real-time tracking and regulation in drying process, improve the quality of drying process and reduce energy consumption. Based on the moisture diffusion model in thin layer drying process, the principle of mass conservation of deep drying process, state function and irreversible thermodynamics analytic method, we have established and solved basic equations of deep-bed drying of grains, obtained the moisture content ratio of grains and analysis formula of drying velocity distribution in processes of concurrent flow drying, counter flow drying, cross-flow drying and standing drying and resolved the sustained decreasing drying process of grains in the concurrent flow drying and extreme point of drying rate in the counter-flow drying. Under the same conditions of temperature, humidity and air output, the drying velocity in counter-flow drying significantly higher than that in the concurrent flow drying. It means the energy utilization effects in counter-flow drying is better than that in the concurrent flow drying. Drying characteristics of grains in cross-flow drying and standing flow drying are the same, while drying rates in inlet-air side and outlet-air side vary widely. It means that when the layer thickness is 0.5m and the moisture content is over 20%, the drying rate in outlet-air side is nearly zero and the drying uniformity is bad. Tests on 5HP-3.5 recirculation drier shows that maximum deviation between analytic value and measured value in deep drying process is 0.69% and the range scope is -0.27%-0.69%. From the drying characteristics of grains, deviations mainly come from instrument detection deviations. The analytic method has important significance for realizing real-time tracking and regulation in drying process, guiding drying technology design, reducing energy consumption, increasing drying rate and drying machine capacity.


2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 1960-1963
Author(s):  
Xin Ye Dai ◽  
Xiang Ji ◽  
Lei Tang ◽  
Hai Yan Wang ◽  
Qun Cui

The low-temperature adsorption drying characteristics of thin-layer Angelica Dahurica were evaluated in a large scale dryer. The effects of drying medium temperature, relative humidity of drying medium and wind velocity on the drying characteristics were investigated. Page model using nonlinear regression method can preferably fit the drying characteristic of Angelica Dahurica under different drying conditions The work revealed the correlation between moisture content and drying process parameters. The drying coefficient and exponent in the page model can be expressed as a function of temperature, relative humidity and wind velocity of the drying air.


2013 ◽  
Vol 465-466 ◽  
pp. 472-479
Author(s):  
Mohd Nazif Farhan ◽  
Mohd Faizal Mohideen Batcha ◽  
Sulastri Sabudin

Drying is essentially a process of simultaneous heat and mass transfer, in general, to remove moisture from a wet material to give a long shelf-life or to facilitate further processing. The drying medium flowing around the material serves to remove the moisture. In most drying operations, water is the liquid evaporated using air as the drying medium [. For each individual particle, the drying process involves moisture migration from the inner core regions to the particle surface. The surface moisture is then vaporized or evaporated into the drying medium.


2012 ◽  
Vol 326-328 ◽  
pp. 593-598
Author(s):  
Ralph W.L. Ip ◽  
Elvis Iok Cheong Wan

Designing a drying process for porous type fabrics using traditional linear heat transfer models may be inefficiency because the drying characteristics in the process are usually nonlinear. Using nonlinear approaches to describe the heat/mass flow could be better for many industrial application cases. The paper as presented here is a study for an analytical model using differential form nonlinear equations to describe heat transfer and moisture diffusion process using air as the processing medium. Experimental findings were used to evaluate the performance of the studied model. Relationships between the model parameters and fabric physical properties were determined for further used in the design of drying equipment.


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