Simulation and design of a tunnel drier

S. Ben Mabrouk and A. Belghith

Renewable Energy, 1994, vol. 5, issue 1, 469-473

Abstract: Food drying process in tunnel drier was simulated and optimized in operating conditions from thick bed model and experimental drying curves. The grapes have choosen as a food material, because they have typical drying characteristic curves. Then, we describe a hot air drier and we present a model composed with the conservation equations and thin layer drying rate. A numerical resolution allows to establish the drying front displacement for several initial conditions. Most of consumed energy to be used for air heating was analysed.

Keywords: Thin layer rate; drying potential; theoretical model; industrial tunnel drier; energy consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(94)90416-2

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