Research Article

Vibro-Fluidized Bed Drying of Pumpkin Seeds: Assessment of Mathematical and Artificial Neural Network Models for Drying Kinetics

Table 7

Deff, Ea, and mass transfer constraints of pumpkin seeds at different drying temperatures.

Temperature (°C)Deff (m2/s)Ea (kJ/mol)kBihm (m/s)

401.12 ± 3.62 × 10−1032.71 ± 1.050.04 ± 0.000.51 ± 0.011.49 ± 4.89 × 10−8
501.55 ± 6.7 × 10−110.064 ± 0.000.60 ± 0.012.42 ± 9.24 × 10−8
602.28 ± 1.43 × 10−100.44 ± 0.011.26 ± 0.017.45 ± 5.52 × 10−8