Experimental Research of Drying Characteristic of Red Banana in a Single Slope Direct Solar Dryer Based on Natural and Forced Convection
| Autor: | Elavarasan Elangovan, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Exergy
Solar dryer Materials science General Chemical Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Food processing and manufacture Mass transfer Water content Red banana drying kinetics Original Scientific Paper Natural convection biology Moisture single slope solar dryer Mechanics TP368-456 biology.organism_classification moisture ratio correlation Forced convection activation energy solarna sušara sušenje crvene banane kinetika sušenja indeks korelacije omjera vlage efektivna difuzivnost vlage energija aktivacije red banana drying moisture diffusivity TP248.13-248.65 Food Science Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Food Technology and Biotechnology Food Technology and Biotechnology, Vol 59, Iss 2, Pp 137-146 (2021) Volume 59 Issue 2 |
| ISSN: | 1334-2606 1330-9862 |
| Popis: | Research background. Traditionally, open sun drying method serves to dry the products for long time preservation. Solar drying is also employed to minimise the drying time to achieve the required moisture content. This method inherently contains complex heat and mass transfer mechanisms, which makes difficult to describe drying kinetics at the micro level. Experimental approach. In this paper, research is carried out to investigate the drying of 5 mm thick slices of red banana (Musa acuminata ’Red Dacca’) in a single slope solar dryer based on natural and forced convection. Based on the experiments, a new semi-empirical thin layer drying kinetics is proposed and compared with other existing models. The proposed model with the correlation coefficient (R2) of 0.997 is in very good agreement with other well-known models. Based on the model, we calculated the moisture diffusivity and activation energy of the red banana drying process. Results and conclusions. It was found that the moisture diffusivity of the red banana samples was in the range 0.87-1.56·10-9 m2/s for natural convection solar drying and 0.84-2.61·10-8 m2/s for forced convection solar drying. The activation energy of the red banana varied from 24.58 to 45.20 kJ/mol for passive and 22.56 to 35.49 kJ/mol for active drying. Besides, we carried out energy and exergy analyses of red banana in the dryers and found that the average exergy losses in the forced and natural convections were 16.1 and 6.63 kJ/kg and the average exergic efficiency of the natural and forced convection dryers was 57.7 and 70.9%, respectively. Novelty and scientific contribution. A single slope direct solar dryer was designed and built to maintain the desired temperature for a specified period in both natural and forced convection mode. A novel drying kinetics model with higher correlation coefficient (R2) than the other drying kinetic models is proposed for the preservation of red bananas. Pozadina istraživanja. Sušenje na suncu se tradicionalno primjenjuje za dugotrajno očuvanje prehrambenih proizvoda. Također se koristi za postizanje željenog udjela vlage u proizvodu u što kraćem vremenu. Ova metoda neizostavno obuhvaća složene mehanizme prijenosa temperature i mase, zbog čega je teško opisati kinetiku sušenja u samom uzorku. Eksperimentalni pristup. U ovom je radu ispitano sušenje kriški crvene banane (Musa acuminata „Red Dacca“) debljine 5 mm u solarnoj sušari s jednostrukim nagibom i prisilnom ili prirodnom konvekcijom. Na osnovi rezultata pokusa predložen je novi, djelomično empirijski model za opisivanje kinetike sušenja u tankom sloju uzorka, te je uspoređen s postojećim modelima. Predloženi je model, s koeficijentom korelacije (R2) od 0.997, bio u skladu s drugim dobro poznatim modelima. Na osnovi novog modela izračunali smo efektivnu difuzivnost vlage i energiju aktivacije sušenja uzoraka crvene banane. Rezultati i zaključci. Rezultati pokazuju da je efektivna difuzivnost vlage u uzorcima crvene banane sušenim prirodnom konvekcijom bila 0,87−1,56·10-9 m2/s, a onih sušenih prisilnom konvekcijom 0,84−2,61·10-8 m2/s. Energija aktivacije varirala je od 24,58 do 45,20 kJ/mol tjekom pasivnog, te od 22,56 do 35,49 kJ/mol tijekom aktivnog sušenja. Osim toga, utvrđeno je da je prosječni eksergijski gubitak tijekom sušenja crvene banane u solarnoj sušari prisilnom konvekcijom bio 16,1 kJ/kg, a prirodnom konvekcijom 6,63 kJ/kg, dok je prosječni eksergijski učinak bio 57,7 %, odnosno 70,9 %. Novina i znanstveni doprinos. Solarna sušara s jednostrukim nagibom dizajnirana je s ciljem da zadrži željenu temperaturu tijekom definiranog perioda u oba načina sušenja: prirodnom ili prisilnom konvekcijom. Predložen je novi kinetički model sušenja s većim koeficijentom korelacije (R2) nego u ostalim modelima sušenja, a sa svrhom produljenja trajnosti crvenih banana. |
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