Research Article

Drying Kinetics and Chemical Properties of Mango

Table 1

Mathematical models for describing thin layer drying characteristics.

Model nameModel equationReferences

Newton[28]
Page[29]
Modified Page I[14]
Modified Page IIn[30, 31]
Henderson and Pabis[19]
Modified Henderson and Pabis[31]
Logarithmic[30]
Wang and Singh[20]
Peleg[32]
Midilli[27]
Verma et al.[31]
Diffusion approach[30]

Where , , , , , and are empirical constants, drying constant, drying time, and moisture ratio.