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2012
Volume 15
Issue 3
Topic:
Agricultural Engineering
ELECTRONIC
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AGRICULTURAL
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Ranjbaran M. , Zare D. 2012. A NEW APPROACH FOR MODELING OF HOT AIR-MICROWAVE THIN LAYER DRYING OF SOYBEAN, EJPAU 15(3), #01.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume15/issue3/abs-01.html

A NEW APPROACH FOR MODELING OF HOT AIR-MICROWAVE THIN LAYER DRYING OF SOYBEAN

Mohsen Ranjbaran1, Dariush Zare2
1 Agricultural Engineering Department Shiraz University
2 Biosystems Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran

 

ABSTRACT

The drying characteristics of soybean during combined hot air-microwave drying were examined. The experiments were carried out for combination of five microwave power densities (0.89, 1.6, 3.2, 4.3, 5.3 W/g) and four levels of air temperatures (30, 40, 50 and 60 °C). Among several models which were fitted to the experimental data, the Modified Two Term model was introduced to be the most appropriate model to predict moisture ratio as a function of air temperature and microwave power density. The effective moisture diffusivity was calculated in the range from 8.740×10-10 m2/s to 3.9664×10-9 m2/s.

Key words: hot air-microwave drying, effective moisture diffusivity, thin layer drying, soybeans.

Mohsen Ranjbaran
Agricultural Engineering Department
Shiraz University
Shiraz, Iran
email: agricmachinary@yahoo.com

Dariush Zare
Biosystems Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran
P.O. Box 7144165186, Shiraz, Iran
Phone: +98 711 6138192; Fax: +98 711 2286104
email: dzare@shirazu.ac.ir

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