Estimation of effective moisture diffusivity of okra for microwave drying

Drying Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1445-1450

  Dadali, Gökçe ^a   Apar, Dilek Kiliç ^a   Özbek, Belma ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Effective moisture diffusivity; Microwave drying; Round okra

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; MICROWAVE HEATING; MOISTURE;

MICROWAVE DRYING; MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY;

DRYING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DRYING; ESTIMATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; MICROWAVE HEATING; MOISTURE;

EID: 34548386151     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930701536767     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Decareau, R.V. (1985) Microwaves in the Food Processing Industry,, Academic Press Inc. (London) LTD. Orlando, FL
2. Decareau, R.V. (1992) Encyclopaedia of Food Science and Technology, 3, pp. 1772-1778. John Wiley & Sons, USA
3. Barbosa-Canovas, G.V. and Vega-Mercado, H. (1996) Dehydration of Foods,, Chapman & Hall, New York
4. Kim, S.S. and Bhownik, S.R. (1995) Effective moisture diffusivity of plain yogurt undergoing microwave vacuum drying. Journal of Food Engineering, 24:1, pp. 137-148.
5. Youcef-Ali, S., Messaoudi, H., Desmons, J.Y., Abene, A. and Ray, M. Le (2001) Determination of the average coefficient of internal moisture transfer during the drying of a thin bed of potato slices. Journal of Food Engineering, 48, pp. 95-101.
6. Hamdami, N., Monteau, J.Y. and Bail, A.L. (2004) Transport properties of a high porosity model food at above and sub-freezing temperatures. Part 2: Evaluation of the effective moisture diffusivity from drying data. Journal of Food Engineering, 62:4, pp. 385-392.
7. Soysal, Y. (2004) Microwave drying characteristics of parsley. Biosystems Engineering, 89:2, pp. 167-173.
8. Dincer, I. and Dost, S. (1995) An analytical model for moisture diffusion in solid objects during drying. Drying Technology, 13:1, pp. 425-435.
9. Crank, J. (1975) The Mathematics of Diffusion,, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK
10. Doymaz, I. (2005) Drying characteristics and kinetics of okra. Journal of Food Engineering, 69:3, pp. 275-279.
11. Sun, L., Islam, Md. R., Ho, J.C. and Mujumdar, A.S. (2005) A diffusion model for drying of a heat sensitive solid under multiple heat input modes. Bioresource Technology, 96, pp. 1551-1560.
12. Maskan, M. (2000) Microwave/air and microwave finish drying of banana. Journal of Food Engineering, 44:2, pp. 71-78.
13. Sharma, G.P. and Prasad, S. (2004) Effective moisture diffusivity of garlic cloves undergoing microwave-convective drying. Journal of Food Engineering, 65:4, pp. 609-617.
14. Ozdemir, M. and Devres, Y.O. (1999) The thin layer drying characteristics of hazelnuts during roasting. Journal of Food Engineering, 42, pp. 225-233.
15. Ertekin, C. and Yaldiz, O. (2004) Drying of eggplant and selection of a suitable thin layer drying model. Journal of Food Engineering, 63, pp. 349-359.
16. Bon, J., Simal, S., Rossello, C. and Mulet, A. (1997) Drying characteristics of hemispherical solids. Journal of Food Engineering, 34:2, pp. 109-122.
17. Khraisheh, M.A.M., Cooper, T.J.R. and Magee, T.R.A. (1997) Shrinkage characteristics of potatoes dehydrated under combined microwave and convective air conditions. Drying Technology, 15:3, pp. 1003-1022.
18. Sharma, G.P., Verma, R.C. and Pathare, P.B. (2005) Thin-layer infrared radiation drying of onion slices. Journal of Food Engineering, 67:3, pp. 361-366.
19. Dadali, G., Apar, D.K. and Ozbek, B. Microwave drying kinetics of okra.
20. Gögüs, F. and Maskan, M. (2007) Water adsorption and drying characteristics of okra (Hibiscus esculentus L.). Drying Technology, 25, pp. 917-924.