Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, İstanbul, Türkiye, 17 Aralık 2019 - 19 Ocak 2020, ss.1466-1472
Drying is simultaneous heat and mass transfer energy intensive
operation, widely used as a food preservation technique. In the present study,
applicability of cabinet dryer was investigated at air temperature of 50, 60 and
70°C for drying of pear slices. Drying characteristics and kinetics of pear
slices were evaluated as well as study the applicability of some empirical
models for modelling. Nonlinear regression was used to fit Lewis, Henderson
& Pabis, Page and Midilli & Kucuk models to the drying data. The
goodness of fit between experimental and predicted moisture ratio was tested
using regression coefficient (R2) and reduced chi-square (c2) and root means square error (RMSE).
Highest R2 and least c2 and RMSE indicate the suitability of the model to experimental
data. The effects of hot air drying temperature of 2.0 m/s on the drying kinetics
of pear slices were determined. Prior to the drying experiments, the samples
were divided into two groups. Samples in the first group were treated with
citric acid + ascorbic acid (SA+AA) solution for 1 minute. Control samples were
dried naturally without any pretreatment. During the drying experiment, the
moisture content of pear slices decreased from 81.45% to 10% (w.b.). The
results showed that pretreatment solution and air temperature affected the
drying behaviours of pear slices. Drying rate of the pear slices increased
markedly air temperature increased from 50 to 70°C. The results of regression
analysis indicated that the Midilli & Kucuk model is the best to describe
the drying behaviour with the lowest c2 and RMSE values and highest R2 value. The effective
moisture diffusivity at each air temperature was determined by Fick’s second
law of diffusion, an increase in the temperature led to increase in the
effective moisture diffusivity between 3.64×10−10 and 8.36×10−10
m2/s. The dependence of effective moisture diffusivity on
temperature was expressed by an Arrhenius type equation. The values as
activation energy of SA+AA and Control samples were estimated as 28.13 and
34.60 kJ/mol, respectively.