Effect of Farm Product Intrinsic Properties on Convective Drying: Case of Okra
- 1 Laboratoire des Matériaux et Environnement (LA.M.E.), Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Technologies (EDST), Université Ouaga I Pr Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 2 Laboratoire des Matériaux et Environnement (LA.M.E.), Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Technologies (EDST), Université Ouaga I Pr Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 3 Laboratoire d’Automatique et de Génie des Procédés, LAGEP, UMR CNRS 5007, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Abstract
In this study, the material is okra, a cucurbitaceous largely consumed in West Africa and South Asia. The influence of the external air parameters on food drying with different size, maturity, shape of the material is considered by convective drying. So, the okra was cut in several parts according to its three characteristic zones, the basis, the middle of the okra and the extremity because the three parts of the vegetable have not the same resistances in transfers by convective drying. The maturity of the okra also has an influence. The okra dries faster in its younger or older age. Okra dries slowly when its maturity is convenient to be consumed. The drying duration of okra with the age of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 days is respectively 580, 780, 990, 1200 and 850 min. When we consider the three (matters) constituent of the okra: the skin, the seeds and the central material, the central matter dries faster. The diffusion coefficient was identified in all cases in order to compare the influence of those intrinsic properties of that food.
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