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JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING
Volume 305, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2021.110613
Keywords
Reaction engineering approach; Convective drying; Dehydrated vegetable; Drying model; Shrinkage kinetics; Carrot
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFD0400905]
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This study demonstrates a new approach for obtaining drying kinetics model parameters by rearranging heat and mass transfer equations, which allows for modeling highly shrinkable vegetables without concerning shrinkage. The results show good agreement between modeled moisture content and temperature profiles with experimental data, supported by high R-2 values.
Accurate modeling of fruits and vegetables is difficult due to complications like non-regular shrinkage, wrinkling and skin formation. Comprehensively capturing these changes remain difficult. An interesting pathway through a rearranged set of heat and mass transfer equations to obtain the parameters for the drying kinetics model of the lumped reaction engineering approach (L-REA) is demonstrated. This approach allows the obtainment of REA parameters without worrying about shrinkage in the first place. Carrot, typical of a highly shrinkable vegetable, was dried at temperatures of 43, 55 and 63 degrees C and a fixed air velocity of 1.5 m/s. The REA parameters reveal a slightly lower additional activation energy compared with that from the classical approach. It can be seen that all moisture content and temperature profiles agree well with experimental data supported by R-2 higher than 0.9959 for moisture and 0.9837 for temperature which validates the proposed new approach is highly feasible for modeling of highly shrinkable vegetables. This work demonstrates the flexibility of the REA framework in avoiding interwinding issues with shrinkage data accuracy and the obtainment of REA parameters when testing highly shrinkable materials.
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