Effective Diffusion Coefficients of Pears at Different Temperatures

Effective Diffusion Coefficients of Pears at Different Temperatures

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The aim of this study was to examine the drying kinetics of pears (Pyrus communis L.) with and without vacuum impregnation and under the different temperature by using tray dryer. Vacuum impregnation were applied to the the pears (15 mm thickness, 65 mm outer and 20 mm inner dimensions respectively) with the conditions of 50⁰ Brix impregnation solu...

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... effective diffusivity coefficients (Deff) was computed by plotting experimental drying data in terms of ln(MR) versus time ( Lomauro et al.,1985;Doymaz and Akgün, 2009). The values of effective diffusivity coefficients were given in Table 4. Range of Deff values were from 2.74×10 -11 to 7.31×10 -11 m 2 /s. ...