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 …

A comprehensive review of thin-layer drying models used in agricultural products

C Ertekin, MZ Firat - Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Drying is one of the widely used methods of grain, fruit, and vegetable preservation. The
important aim of drying is to reduce the moisture content and thereby increase the lifetime of …

Performance evaluation of hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PVT) solar dryer for drying of cassava

E Veeramanipriya, ARU Sundari - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
A prototype hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PV–T) solar dryer aided with Evacuated Tube
Collector (ETC) is presented for drying of cassava slices under the meteorological …

Mathematical modelling of thin layer drying process under open sun of some aromatic plants

EK Akpinar - Journal of Food Engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
In this work, the sun drying behaviour of aromatic plants as parsley, mint and basil was
investigated. Drying experiments were conducted for parsley, mint and basil grown in Elazig …

Mathematical modeling of thin layer drying of Golden apples

HO Menges, C Ertekin - Journal of food engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
In this study, a laboratory dryer was used for thin layer apple drying process and moisture
ratio at any drying time were compared by Newton, Page, Modified Page, Henderson and …

Optimization of hot air drying of olive leaves using response surface methodology

Z Erbay, F Icier - Journal of food engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
Recently, the interest in olive leaves has increased due to its high phenolic content. Olive
leaves have a high potential for industrial exploitation in the food industry and drying is the …

Effects of hot air, vacuum infrared, and vacuum microwave dryers on the drying kinetics and quality characteristics of orange slices

H Bozkir - Journal of Food Process Engineering, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The present study aimed to dry orange slices at 50, 60, and 70° C using vacuum microwave
dryer (VMD), vacuum infrared dryer (VID), and tray dryer (TD) and to compare the effects of …

Weibull distribution for modeling air drying of coroba slices

O Corzo, N Bracho, A Pereira, A Vásquez - LWT-Food Science and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Application of Weibull distribution model was investigated for describing the moisture
content of coroba slices during air drying. One set of experiments was performed following a …

Experimental parametric study of a mixed-mode forced convection solar dryer equipped with a PV/T air collector

M Fterich, H Chouikhi, H Bentaher, A Maalej - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an experiment and an examination of the performance of a mixed solar
dryer with forced convection, which has been used to dry tomatoes. The studied system is …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of mango drying methods and effect of blanching process based on energy consumption, drying time using multi-criteria decision-making

S Singh, S Kawade, A Dhar, S Powar - Cleaner Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fruits are considered one of the healthiest foods, but their high moisture content makes them
perishable; they must be dried to improve shelf life. Given India's dominance in mango fruit …