Author(s):

FG Sayyad, SH Akbari, DK Vyas, N Kumar and RF Sutar

Abstract: Drying characteristics of water chestnut kernels were evaluated at different air temperatures (50, 60 and 70 °C) in commercially available hot air tray dryer and sun drying. Drying rate of water chestnut kernels 1.1880, 1.6181, 2.6688 and 0.7249 g water/ g dry matter-min were found at drying temperatures of 50, 60, 70 ºC and sun drying (38 ± 5 ºC), respectively at 15 min time interval. The Midilli–Kucuk model fitted better on the basis of higher R² value (0.99978) and lower values of X² and RSME values as 0.0000162 and 0.004028784 at 60 °C.

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2021.v10.i3d.14084

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