TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristics of Convective Drying of Pepino Fruit (Solanum muricatum Ait.)
T2 - Application of Weibull Distribution
AU - Uribe, Elsa
AU - Vega-Gálvez, Antonio
AU - Di Scala, Karina
AU - Oyanadel, Romina
AU - Torrico, Jorge Saavedra
AU - Miranda, Margarita
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors thank the Research Office of Universidad de La Serena, Chile, for the support provided through Project DIULS No. 220-2-06 as well as the Research Fund of the Department of Food Engineering of Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - The aim of this research was to study the behaviour of the drying kinetics of pepino fruit (Solanum muricatum Ait.) at five temperatures (50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 °C). In addition, desorption isotherms were determined at 20, 40 and 60 °C over a water activity range from 0.10 to 0.90. The Guggenheim, Anderson and de Boer model was suitable to depict the desorption data. A monolayer moisture content from 0.10 to 0.14 g water g -1 d. m. was reported. The equations of Newton, Henderson-Pabis, Modified Page, Wang-Singh, Modified Henderson-Pabis, Logarithmic as well as standardised Weibull were tested for modelling drying kinetics. Besides, Fick's second law model was used to calculate the water diffusion coefficient which increased with temperature from 2.55 to 7.29 × 10 -10 m 2 s -1, with estimated activation energy of 27.11 kJ mol -1. The goodness of fit of the models was evaluated using sum squared error and chi-square statistical tests. The comparison of the experimental moisture values with respect to the calculated values showed that the standardised Weibull model presented the best goodness of fit, showing that this equation is very accurate for simulating drying kinetics for further optimisation of drying times.
AB - The aim of this research was to study the behaviour of the drying kinetics of pepino fruit (Solanum muricatum Ait.) at five temperatures (50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 °C). In addition, desorption isotherms were determined at 20, 40 and 60 °C over a water activity range from 0.10 to 0.90. The Guggenheim, Anderson and de Boer model was suitable to depict the desorption data. A monolayer moisture content from 0.10 to 0.14 g water g -1 d. m. was reported. The equations of Newton, Henderson-Pabis, Modified Page, Wang-Singh, Modified Henderson-Pabis, Logarithmic as well as standardised Weibull were tested for modelling drying kinetics. Besides, Fick's second law model was used to calculate the water diffusion coefficient which increased with temperature from 2.55 to 7.29 × 10 -10 m 2 s -1, with estimated activation energy of 27.11 kJ mol -1. The goodness of fit of the models was evaluated using sum squared error and chi-square statistical tests. The comparison of the experimental moisture values with respect to the calculated values showed that the standardised Weibull model presented the best goodness of fit, showing that this equation is very accurate for simulating drying kinetics for further optimisation of drying times.
KW - Desorption
KW - Drying kinetics
KW - Modelling
KW - Pepino fruit
KW - Standardised Weibull model
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U2 - 10.1007/s11947-009-0230-y
DO - 10.1007/s11947-009-0230-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053566655
SN - 1935-5130
VL - 4
SP - 1349
EP - 1356
JO - Food and Bioprocess Technology
JF - Food and Bioprocess Technology
IS - 8
ER -