Mass migrations in coconut slices during osmotic dehydration and drying are described using a diffusion model with boundary condition of the third kind. The osmotic dehydration experiment was performed at 35Brix (water and sucrose) and 40 C. The convective drying experiments were performed at 50, 60 and 70 C. The one-dimensional solution of the diffusion equation for an infinite slab was cou…
Banana is a fruit produced in most tropical countries. According to the literature, the post-harvest loss is about 40% of the production. To reduce the losses, an alternative is to dry the product. In this context, the main objective of this article was to describe the thin-layer drying of whole bananas. To describe the convective drying process, a mathematical model is normally used. In this a…