An experimental study of shatkora (Citrus Macroptera) in a tray dryer: Effect on drying kinetics and product quality

Uddin, M. Rakib and Akter, Syeada Nelima and Pervez, Md. Shahria and Thurga Devi, Munusamy and Khan, Maksudur R. (2019) An experimental study of shatkora (Citrus Macroptera) in a tray dryer: Effect on drying kinetics and product quality. Journal of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology (JCEIB), 5 (5). pp. 79-90. ISSN 0126-8139. (Published)

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Abstract

Citrus macroptera is a citrus fruit locally known as Shatkora and the fruit of this plant were used for various purposes especially for cooking and also as an odorant in perfume industries.In this research work, Shatkora peel was dried using a laboratory scale tray dryer. The experimental work was conducted at an inlet temperature of 40–60°C and velocities from 0.5–0.9 m/s. Besides, the thickness of the layer was varied between 2– 10 mm. The results demonstrated that the rate of drying was increased accordingly with rise in both air temperature and air velocity however a decreased in layer thickness was noticed. At high air temperature, moisture content of solid achieved equilibrium state within short period of time. On the other hand, moisture diffusivity of Shatkora was evaluated by applying Fick’s second law and the value was varied from 1.78 × 10-8 to 2.83 × 10-7. In addition, activation energy was determined by using Arrhenius type relation and 19.70 kJ/mol was obtained.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Drying; shatkora; drying rate; moisture content; diffusion coefficient.
Subjects: T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Depositing User: Pn. Hazlinda Abd Rahman
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2019 04:37
Last Modified: 13 Jul 2022 08:26
URI: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26013
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