Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer in Shrinkable Apple Slab During Drying

Abstract

The goal of the study was to determine the influence of drying shrinkage on the kinetics of convection apple slab drying. The arbitrary Lagrange-Eulerian (ALE) method was used to enter a problem with moving boundaries. It was found that drying shrinkage had a major influence on the both simulated temperature and water content in the material. The lower the moisture content in particles during drying, the more pronounced the effect of shrinkage on simulation of heat and mass transfer. It was found that application of the arbitrary Lagrange-Eulerian method for shrinkage modeling leads to a relatively simple mathematical model of the drying kinetics of shrinkable materials.