DRYING KINETICS STONE FRUIT IN CONVECTIVE DRYERS

Abstract

Drying kinetics of stone fruit in the chamber of the convective dryers a investigated. Raw materials used cherry varieties Lyubskiy with initial moisture W0 = 90 %; Italian plum varieties with W0 = initial humidity 82 % cherries late varieties (W0 = 86 %); wild plum (W0 = 85 %). The results of drying compared with published data of drying apricots in the industrial dryer PKS-45. Depending on the drying rate of bone-O raw material change in the absolute humidity in the drying process were obtained. On the basis of experimental data, depending on the relative velocity of the drying of raw stone chamber dryers and approximation depending modifying the absolute humidity of the core material in the drying process were obtained by.