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 …

Review on various modelling techniques for the solar dryers

O Prakash, V Laguri, A Pandey, A Kumar… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
This review paper is focused on the various modelling techniques for the solar dryer system.
The modelling techniques are very important to develop, increase drying efficiency, analyse …

Drying of eggplant and selection of a suitable thin layer drying model

C Ertekin, O Yaldiz - Journal of food engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
The thin layer drying behaviour of eggplants in a laboratory dryer was examined. Drying
characteristics of eggplants were determined using heated ambient air at temperatures from …

Drying, shrinkage and rehydration characteristics of kiwifruits during hot air and microwave drying

M Maskan - Journal of food engineering, 2001 - Elsevier
Hot air, microwave and hot air-microwave drying characteristics of kiwifruits (5.03±0.236 mm
thick) were investigated. Drying rates, shrinkage and rehydration capacities of these drying …

Modelling of thin layer drying kinetics of some fruits under open-air sun drying process

İT Toğrul, D Pehlivan - Journal of food Engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
In order to determine the behaviour of fruits during drying under natural conditions, open-air
sun drying experiments were conducted on apricots pre-sulphured with SO2 or NaHSO3 …

The thin layer drying characteristics of organic apple slices

K Sacilik, AK Elicin - Journal of food engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
In this research, the organic apple slices were dried as single layer with thicknesses of 5 and
9mm in the ranges of 40–60° C of the drying air temperature in a convective hot air dryer …

Modeling using a new thin layer drying model and product quality of cocoa

CL Hii, CL Law, M Cloke - Journal of food engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
A new semi-theoretical thin layer model for modeling the air drying of cocoa beans with
overnight tempering at ambient temperature was developed. The new model was a …

Hot air and sun drying of grape leather (pestil)

A Maskan, S Kaya, M Maskan - Journal of food engineering, 2002 - Elsevier
Pestil, a well known fruit leather in Turkey, was prepared from boiled grape juice and starch
mixture by using traditional technique. Drying of pestil was carried out by hot air drying and …

Valorization of grape pomace: Drying behavior and ultrasound extraction of phenolics

AM Goula, K Thymiatis, K Kaderides - Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2016 - Elsevier
The wine industry generates huge amounts of grape pomace as an industrial waste.
Recently, there has been much interest in the phenolic compounds of grape pomace …