A review of thin layer drying of foods: theory, modeling, and experimental results

Z Erbay, F Icier - Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Drying is a complicated process with simultaneous heat and mass transfer, and food drying
is especially very complex because of the differential structure of products. In practice, a food …

Fundamental understanding of heat and mass transfer processes for physics-informed machine learning-based drying modelling

MIH Khan, CP Batuwatta-Gamage, MA Karim, YT Gu - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drying is a complex process of simultaneous heat, mass, and momentum transport
phenomena with continuous phase changes. Numerical modelling is one of the most …

Drying kinetics and quality analysis of black turmeric (Curcuma caesia) drying in a mixed mode forced convection solar dryer integrated with thermal energy storage

DVN Lakshmi, P Muthukumar, A Layek, PK Nayak - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Performances of a mixed mode forced convection solar dryer integrated with paraffin wax
based thermal energy storage have been studied for drying the sliced black turmeric …

Drying of eggplant and selection of a suitable thin layer drying model

C Ertekin, O Yaldiz - Journal of food engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
The thin layer drying behaviour of eggplants in a laboratory dryer was examined. Drying
characteristics of eggplants were determined using heated ambient air at temperatures from …

Mathematical modeling and performance analysis of thin layer drying of bitter gourd in sensible storage based indirect solar dryer

S Vijayan, TV Arjunan, A Kumar - Innovative food science & emerging …, 2016 - Elsevier
An indirect forced convection solar dryer integrated with porous sensible heat storage
medium was developed. The effect of porous thermal storage and mass flow rate of air on …

Modelling of thin layer drying kinetics of some fruits under open-air sun drying process

İT Toğrul, D Pehlivan - Journal of food Engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
In order to determine the behaviour of fruits during drying under natural conditions, open-air
sun drying experiments were conducted on apricots pre-sulphured with SO2 or NaHSO3 …

Influence of drying conditions on the effective moisture diffusivity, energy of activation and energy consumption during the thin-layer drying of berberis fruit …

M Aghbashlo, H Samimi-Akhijahani - Energy Conversion and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Berberis is known as a medicinal and ornamental plant in the world. Berberis fruit is used in
medicine to cure liver, neck and stomach cancer, blood purification and mouth scent. Dried …

Experimental and modelling study of tomato pomace waste drying in a new solar greenhouse: Evaluation of new drying models

O Badaoui, S Hanini, A Djebli, B Haddad… - Renewable energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Algeria industry fruit processing generates a huge amount of waste which causes a serious
environmental problem. Thereby, the use of solar drying as a clean energy process seems …

The thin layer drying characteristics of organic apple slices

K Sacilik, AK Elicin - Journal of food engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
In this research, the organic apple slices were dried as single layer with thicknesses of 5 and
9mm in the ranges of 40–60° C of the drying air temperature in a convective hot air dryer …

Experimental investigation of thin layer drying kinetics of ghost chilli pepper (Capsicum Chinense Jacq.) dried in a forced convection solar tunnel dryer

DK Rabha, P Muthukumar, C Somayaji - Renewable energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, a comparative study of the drying characteristic of thin layer Ghost Chilli
Pepper dried in an indirect-type forced convection solar tunnel dryer and under the open …