Thin-layer drying of one date variety (khalas)‎

Abstract EN

A review of the literature on drying of agricultural products revealed that, very little efforts appear to have been done to measure the drying rates of dates under heated air conditions.

In the present work, thin-layer drying studies were conducted in a laboratory dryer.

Drying curves for one date variety were obtained for three dry bulb temperatures (37, 49 and 61ºC).

A thin-layer drying equation has been applied and was found to describe the drying characteristics of the date variety under consideration reasonably well