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| Title: | Analysis of Moisture Transport in the Solar Drying of Food Items |
| Authors: | Bolaji, Bukola Olalekan |
| Keywords: | Food items
Liquid concentration
Moisture transport
Solar dryer |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Pacific Journal of Sciences, and Technology, Published by Akamai University USA |
| Series/Report no.: | Volume 9;No. 2, pp. 640-646 |
| Abstract: | In this study, the principle of moisture transport in porous materials was used to analyze the rate of moisture removal from food items during solar drying process. A cabinet solar dryer was designed, fabricated and tested to evaluate moisture flux from samples of food items. The dryer exhibited sufficient ability to dry the samples reasonably to a safe moisture level. The results obtained show that at lower liquid concentration the moisture flux increases with increase in the concentration, while the moisture flux was constant at liquid concentration above 70 kgm–3 for shelled corn and above 150 kgm–3 for yam chips. The drying temperature and the intensity of solar radiation were the main factors that influenced the rate of moisture removal from the food items |
| URI: | http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1222 |
| Appears in Collections: | Mechanical Journal Publications
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