A Moisture Transfer Model for Kenaf fiber Drying

This paper deals with an experimental and theoretical investigation of microwave drying of moist kenaf fiber. A drying model [1-3] is used to determine drying process parameters (e.g. drying coefficient , lag factor) and moisture transfer parameters ( e.g. moisture diffusivity and moisture transfer coefficient), and to calculate moisture content distributions. Experimental part includes the measurement of moisture content distribution of kenaf slabs with 5mm thickness during microwave drying at the temperature 40 C° , 100 C° and 200C°. The results shows a appreciably high agreement between the measured and predicted moisture content values for the correlation.

کلیدواژه ها:

kenaf ، drying ، microwave