Estudo do comportamento da temperatura de bananas durante o processo de secagem

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

In this work the phenomenon of heat transfer during the drying of banana fruit (Musa acuminata) sub-group Cavendish variety was studied for different air drying eonditions. Two mathematieaI modeIs were deveIoped based on the eonduetion heat transfer equation. The first one eonsidered an infinite eylindergeometry and eonstant thennaI diffusivity. The seeond modeI was buiIt for a finite eyIinder geometry and eonsidered variabIe thermaI diffusivity. The resuIts have shown that ehanges in the fruit geometry and in the thermaI diffusivity eoeffieient included in the diffusionaI modeI provide a good agreement between experimental and eaIeuIatedtemperatures inside the banana, partieuIarIyfor the finite eylindrieaIgeometry. The temperature profiIe inside the banana was aIso studied. Changes in temperature aeeording to the distanee fiom the eenter of the eylinderand the drying time were iaIso anaIyzed by the response surfaee graphs . Finally, a third IDodeIwas proposed based on an empirieaIIogaritInnie equation. In spite of its simplieity, this equation was adequate to deseribe the temperature profile inside the banana during drying

ASSUNTO(S)

difusividade termica banana - secagem

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