Modeling of the Drying Process of Apple Pomace

Abstract

Understanding biological materials is quite complicated. The material apple pomace is biologically unstable has been dried under certain conditions. Modeling the pomace drying is necessary to understand the heat and mass transport mechanism and is a prerequisite for the mathematical description of the entire process. Such a model plays an important role in the optimization or control of working conditions. Modeling of the pomace drying process is difficult as apple pomace is highly heterogeneous, as it consists of flesh, seeds, seed covers, and petioles of various sizes, shapes and proportions. A simple mathematical model (Page) was used, which describes well the entire course of the drying process. This is used to control the process. In turn, complex mathematical models describe the phenomena and scientifically explain the essence of drying. Mathematical modeling of the dewatering process is an indispensable part of the design, development and optimization of drying equipment.

Keywords

• drying
• modeling
• apple pomace