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The present work aimed at studying the influence of temperature (40, 50 and 60 ºC) and air
velocity (0.7, 0.9 and 1.2 m/s) on drying of quince. From the results obtained it was possible
to conclude that the quince drying had a similar kinetic behaviour, regardless of the operating
conditions. As to the influence of the drying temperature on the process, it was observed that
increasing the drying temperature from 40 ºC to 60 ºC leads to a diminishing of 30 % in the
drying time. On the other hand the increase in air velocity does not have a proportional effect
on the reduction of dimensionless moisture, particularly at higher quince moisture contents.
The rate of quince drying is characterised by the absence of the constant drying-rate period
followed by falling-rate period, regardless of the conditions.
The data for the moisture ratio over time was fitted to different empirical models with the best
performances coming from the Modified Page, Henderson & Page and Logarithmic models.
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quince drying drying kinetics moiture content
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Barroca MJ, Guiné RPF. (2012) Study of drying kinetics of quince. Proceedings (Electronic) da International Conference of Agricultural Engineering CIGR-AgEng2012, 6 pp.