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Provedor de dados: | Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental
País: | Brazil
Título: | Mathematical modeling of pequi pulp drying and effective diffusivity determination
Autores: | Sousa,Elisabete P. de; Figueirêdo,Rossana M. F. de; Gomes,Josivanda P.; Queiroz,Alexandre J. de M.; Castro,Deise S. de; Lemos,Danielle M.
Data: | 2017-07-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Caryocar coriaceum Wittm; Thickness; Convective drying.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The aim of this work was to study the drying kinetics of pequi pulp by convective drying at different conditions of temperature (50, 60, 70 and 80 °C) and thickness (0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 cm) at the air speed of 1.0 m s-1, with no addition of adjuvant. The experimental data of pequi pulp drying kinetics were used to plot drying curves and fitted to the models: Midilli, Page, Henderson &amp; Pabis and Newton. Effective diffusivity was calculated using the Fick’s diffusion model for a flat plate. It was found that, with increasing thickness, the drying time increased and, with increasing temperature, the drying time was reduced. The Midilli model showed the best fit to the experimental data of pequi pulp drying at all temperatures and thicknesses, presenting higher coefficients of determination (R2), indicating that this model satisfactorily represents the pequi pulp drying phenomenon. There was a trend of increase in the effective diffusivity with the increase in pulp layer thickness and temperature.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662017000700493
Editor: | Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola  - UFCG
Relação: | 10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v21n7p493-498
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental  v.21 n.7 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess