Modeling of combined far-infrared radiation and air drying of a ring shaped-pineapple with/without shrinkage
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Author list: Ponkham K., Meeso N., Soponronnarit S., Siriamornpun S.
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2012
Journal: Food and Bioproducts Processing (0960-3085)
Volume number: 90
Issue number: 2
Start page: 155
End page: 164
Number of pages: 10
ISSN: 0960-3085
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
A ring shape is commonly used for industrial process of pineapple. Unfortunately, there has been no study on modeling of pineapple rings. Therefore we developed the mathematical model of pineapple rings during combined far-infrared radiation and air convection drying to investigate the evolutions of moisture content and qualities. The drying model based on the solution of Fick's law was used to estimate moisture diffusion coefficient (D). The D values with and without taking into account shrinkage phenomenon of dried products were compared. The kinetics of dried pineapple qualities such as color, shear force ratio and shrinkage during drying also were studied. Pineapples were pretreated, cut into rings and dried at far-infrared intensities of 1-5 kW/m 2 combined with air temperatures of 40-60 ฐC and air velocities of 0.5-1.5 m/s. The D values were found to increase with increasing intensity and air temperature. The D values with shrinkage consideration were lower than the D values without shrinkage consideration for all drying conditions. The quartic model gave a better fit over the other three polynomial models for describing the color kinetics. The thin layer drying models such as Page, Henderson and Pabis, Logarithmic and Midilli-Kucuk were modified in order to describe shear force ratio (SFR) of dried pineapple. The statistically analyses from this present study indicated that modification of drying models can be used to describe the kinetics of SFR and Midilli-Kucuk's form gave a better fit over the other form. The quadratic model was better than the linear model to predict shrinkage kinetics for all four dimensions (outer radius, inner radius, thickness and volume) of pineapple rings.
Keywords
Far-infrared drying, Finite hollow cylinder, Shear force ratio
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