Energetic and exergetic performance analysis and modeling of drying kinetics of kiwi slices

This work focused on the effects of the moisture content, slices thickness and microwave power on aspects of energy and exergy, drying kinetics, moisture diffusivity, activation energy, and modeling of the thin layer drying of kiwi slices. Results showed that energy and exergy efficiency increased with increasing microwave power and decreasing slice thickness while values of energy efficiency (15.15–32.27 %) were higher than exergy efficiency (11.35–24.68 %). Also, these parameters decreased with a decrease in moisture content. Specific energy consumption varied from 7.79 to 10.02, 8.59 to 10.77 and 9.57 to16.20 to MJ/kg water evaporated for 3, 6 and 9 mm, respectively. The values of exergy loss were found to be in the range of 5.90 and 14.39 MJ/kg water and decreased as the microwave power increased and slice thickness decreased. Effective diffusivity increased with decreasing moisture content and increasing microwave power and slice thickness. Average effective moisture diffusivity of kiwi slices changes between 1.47 × 10−9 and 39.29 × 10−9 m2/s within the given variables range. Activation energy (17.96–21.38 W/g) showed a significant dependence on the moisture content. Although the Midilli model showed the best fit, Page’s model was selected, since it had almost a similar performance but the model is simpler with two parameters instead of four.

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