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Drying kinetics of rough rice grain
Author(s) -
AGUERRE R.,
SUAREZ C.,
VIOLLAZ P. E.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of food science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.831
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1365-2621
pISSN - 0950-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1982.tb00227.x
Subject(s) - thermal diffusivity , arrhenius equation , activation energy , diffusion , thermodynamics , moisture , inverse , materials science , grain size , mathematics , chemistry , physics , composite material , geometry
Summary It is shown that thin layer drying of rewetted rough rice grain in air flow may be interpreted in terms of Fick's law solution for diffusion from a sphere. Diffusion coefficients were calculated by non‐linear regression analysis comparing actual and predicted values of grain moisture content. The activation energy of rough rice was calculated assuming an Arrhenius type equation for moisture diffusivity dependence on the inverse of the absolute temperature.