| The drying characteristics of green peas during combined hot air-infrared drying were examined. The experiments were carried out for combination of four infrared power intensities (0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 W.cm-2) and three levels of drying air flow rate (0.5, 1 and 1.5 m.s-1) and three levels of drying air temperatures (30, 40 and 50° C). Among several models which were fitted to the experimental data, the Three Term model was introduced to be the most appropriate model to predict moisture ratio as a function of air flow rate, drying air temperature and infrared power density. The statistics indexes of 99.7%, 0.000121, 0.0000 and 0.000121 for R2, X2, MBE and RMSE were obtained for the Three Term model, respectively. Application of infrared radiation in... |
