A Numerical Approach to Determine Some Properties of Cylindrical Pieces of Bananas During Drying
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Wilton Pereira da Silva
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Cleide M. D. P. S. e Silva
Abstract
This article uses several liquid diffusion models to describe convective drying of bananas cut into cylindrical pieces. A two-dimensional numerical solution of the diffusion equation with boundary condition of the third kind, obtained through the finite volume method, was used to describe the process. The cylindrical pieces were cut into the following dimensions: length of about 21 mm and average radius of 15 mm. Drying air temperatures were 40°C, 50°C, 60°C and 70°C. In order to determine the process parameters, an optimizer was coupled with the numerical solution. A model that considers the shrinkage and variable effective moisture diffusivity well describes drying for all the experimental conditions, and enables to predict the moisture distributions at any given time. For this model, the determination coefficient has varied from 0.99937 (70°C) to 0.99995 (40°C), while the chi-square ranged from 3.41 × 10−4 (40°C) to 4.15 × 10−3 (70°C).
Acknowledgments
The author Wilton Pereira da Silva would like to thank CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) for the support given to this work and for his research grant (Process Number 301697/2012-4).
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