Characteristics of Convective Drying of Pepino Fruit (Solanum muricatum Ait.): Application of Weibull Distribution

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1349-1356

  Uribe, Elsa ^a   Vega Gálvez, Antonio ^a   Di Scala, Karina ^b,c   Oyanadel, Romina ^a   Torrico, Jorge Saavedra ^d,e   Miranda, Margarita ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^e Centro Regional de Estudios en Alimentos Saludables Valparaiso   (Chile)

Author keywords

Desorption; Drying kinetics; Modelling; Pepino fruit; Standardised Weibull model

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; CALCULATED VALUES; CONVECTIVE DRYING; DE BOERS; DESORPTION ISOTHERMS; DRYING KINETIC; FICK'S SECOND LAW; GOODNESS OF FIT; GUGGENHEIM; MODELLING; MONOLAYER MOISTURE CONTENT; OPTIMISATIONS; SUM SQUARED ERROR; WATER ACTIVITY; WATER DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; WEIBULL; WEIBULL MODELS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DRYING; FRUITS; KINETICS; MOISTURE; MONOLAYERS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

SOLANUM; SOLANUM MURICATUM;

EID: 80053566655     PISSN: 19355130     EISSN: 19355149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-009-0230-y     Document Type: Article

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