Drying Kinetics and Quality of Whole, Halved, and Pulverized Tiger Nut Tubers (Cyperus esculentus)

Table 2

Results of fitting the experimental data for tiger nuts and their estimated constants for the various air temperatures.

Model name	(°C)	State						RMSE
Page	70	Whole		0.005	0.972		0.998	0.012247	0.000167
		Halved		0.007	0.922		0.998	0.012247	0.000167
		Pulverized		0.012	1.234		0.999	0.01	0.000111
	60	Whole		0.002	1.113		0.998	0.014142	0.000222
		Halved		0.009	0.85		0.997	0.014142	0.000222
		Pulverized		0.011	1.011			0.01	0.000111
	50	Whole		0.002	1.077		0.993	0.02582	0.000737
		Halved		0.005	0.922		0.992	0.026726	0.000789
		Pulverized		0.010	1.05		0.996	0.019518	0.000421
Midilli et al.	70	Whole	1.014	0.007	0.903		0.999	0.01	0.000125
		Halved	1.006	0.009	0.865		0.999	0.007071
		Pulverized	0.997	0.02	1.266		0.999	0.01	0.000125
	60	Whole	0.984	0.006	1.094		0.999	0.01	0.000125
		Halved	1.008	0.007	0.774		0.998	0.01	0.000125
		Pulverized	0.986	0.015	1.037		0.999	0.01	0.000125
	50	Whole	0.999	0.005	0.855		1	0	0
		Halved	0.997	0.0057	0.736		1	0	0
		Pulverized	0.993	0.014	0.946		0.999	0.006901	5.88E-05
Logarithmic	70	Whole	0.996	0.004		-0.004	0.998	0.014142	0.000235
		Halved	0.97	0.004		0.004	0.997	0.014142	0.000235
	60	Pulverized	1.062	0.007		-0.012	0.994	0.024495	0.000706
		Whole	1.086	0.003		-0.087	0.999	0.012247	0.000176
		Halved	0.926	0.004		0.029	0.994	0.022361	0.000588
		Pulverized	0.999	0.005		-0.005	0.999	0.01	0.000118
	50	Whole	1.154	0.002		-0.184	0.999	0.009759	0.000111
		Halved	0.992	0.003		-0.057	0.995	0.020702	0.0005
		Pulverized	1.052	0.005		-0.074	0.999	0.009759	0.000111