Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly 2015 Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages: 511-518
https://doi.org/10.2298/CICEQ140816007F
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Mathematical modeling and effect of blanching pretreatment on the drying kinetics of Chinese yam (Dioscorea opposita)
Fang Sheng (Zhejiang Gongshang University, School of Food Science and Biotechnology Engineering, Hangzhou, China)
Wang Li-Ping (Zhejiang Gongshang University, School of Food Science and Biotechnology Engineering, Hangzhou, China)
Wu Ting (Zhejiang Gongshang University, School of Food Science and Biotechnology Engineering, Hangzhou, China)
The influences of blanching pretreatment on the drying kinetics of Chinese
yam (Dioscorea opposita) slices were investigated. Drying experiments were
carried out at 60, 70, 80 and 90°C. Six thin layer models were evaluated and
the determination of coefficient (R2), chi-square (χ2), root means square
error (RMSE) were used to analysis the model performance for both raw and
blanched samples. The Wang and Singh model gave best results with R2 of
0.9987 and RMSE of 0.0136 for raw yam slices, and R2 of 0.9989 and RMSE of
0.0119 for blanched samples. The effective moisture diffusivity coefficient
Deff varied in the range of 0.7295×10-9 to 2.4087×10-9m2 s-1 for raw slices, and
1.3748×10-9 to 3.8524×10-9m2 s-1 for the blanche dones. The activation energy of
yam slices drying were 41.149 and 33.499 kJ mol-1 for raw and blanched yam
slices, respectively. Results show that blanching pretreatment can reduce the
total drying time and improve the effective moisture diffusivity compared
with the raw samples.
Keywords: Chinese yam, hot air drying, kinetics, modeling, blanching