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Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation

This study aimed at investigating the performances of air drying of blackberries assisted by airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound. The drying experiments were conducted in a self-designed dryer coupled with a 20-kHz ultrasound probe. A numerical model for unsteady heat and mass transfer consid...

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Autores principales: Tao, Yang, Li, Dandan, Siong Chai, Wai, Show, Pau Loke, Yang, Xuhai, Manickam, Sivakumar, Xie, Guangjie, Han, Yongbin
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7803686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33341708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105410
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author Tao, Yang
Li, Dandan
Siong Chai, Wai
Show, Pau Loke
Yang, Xuhai
Manickam, Sivakumar
Xie, Guangjie
Han, Yongbin
author_facet Tao, Yang
Li, Dandan
Siong Chai, Wai
Show, Pau Loke
Yang, Xuhai
Manickam, Sivakumar
Xie, Guangjie
Han, Yongbin
author_sort Tao, Yang
collection PubMed
description This study aimed at investigating the performances of air drying of blackberries assisted by airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound. The drying experiments were conducted in a self-designed dryer coupled with a 20-kHz ultrasound probe. A numerical model for unsteady heat and mass transfer considering temperature dependent diffusivity, shrinkage pattern and input ultrasonic energies were applied to explore the drying mechanism, while the energy consumption and quality were analyzed experimentally. Generally, both airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound accelerated the drying process, reduced the energy consumption and enhanced the retentions of blackberry anthocyanins and organic acids in comparison to air drying alone. At the same input ultrasound intensity level, blackberries received more ultrasound energies under contact sonication (0.299 W) than airborne sonication (0.245 W), thus avoiding the attenuation of ultrasonic energies by air. The modeling results revealed that contact ultrasound was more capable than airborne ultrasound to intensify the inner moisture diffusion and heat conduction, as well as surface exchange of heat and moisture with air. During air drying, contact ultrasound treatment eliminated the gradients of temperature and moisture inside blackberry easier than airborne ultrasound, leading to more homogenous distributions. Moreover, the total energy consumption under air drying with contact ultrasound assistance was 27.0% lower than that with airborne ultrasound assistance. Besides, blackberries dehydrated by contact ultrasound contained more anthocyanins and organic acids than those dried by airborne ultrasound, implying a higher quality. Overall, direct contact sonication can well benefit blackberry drying in both energy and quality aspects.
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spelling pubmed-78036862021-01-22 Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation Tao, Yang Li, Dandan Siong Chai, Wai Show, Pau Loke Yang, Xuhai Manickam, Sivakumar Xie, Guangjie Han, Yongbin Ultrason Sonochem Original Research Article This study aimed at investigating the performances of air drying of blackberries assisted by airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound. The drying experiments were conducted in a self-designed dryer coupled with a 20-kHz ultrasound probe. A numerical model for unsteady heat and mass transfer considering temperature dependent diffusivity, shrinkage pattern and input ultrasonic energies were applied to explore the drying mechanism, while the energy consumption and quality were analyzed experimentally. Generally, both airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound accelerated the drying process, reduced the energy consumption and enhanced the retentions of blackberry anthocyanins and organic acids in comparison to air drying alone. At the same input ultrasound intensity level, blackberries received more ultrasound energies under contact sonication (0.299 W) than airborne sonication (0.245 W), thus avoiding the attenuation of ultrasonic energies by air. The modeling results revealed that contact ultrasound was more capable than airborne ultrasound to intensify the inner moisture diffusion and heat conduction, as well as surface exchange of heat and moisture with air. During air drying, contact ultrasound treatment eliminated the gradients of temperature and moisture inside blackberry easier than airborne ultrasound, leading to more homogenous distributions. Moreover, the total energy consumption under air drying with contact ultrasound assistance was 27.0% lower than that with airborne ultrasound assistance. Besides, blackberries dehydrated by contact ultrasound contained more anthocyanins and organic acids than those dried by airborne ultrasound, implying a higher quality. Overall, direct contact sonication can well benefit blackberry drying in both energy and quality aspects. Elsevier 2020-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7803686/ /pubmed/33341708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105410 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Original Research Article
Tao, Yang
Li, Dandan
Siong Chai, Wai
Show, Pau Loke
Yang, Xuhai
Manickam, Sivakumar
Xie, Guangjie
Han, Yongbin
Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
title Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
title_full Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
title_fullStr Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
title_short Comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: Heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
title_sort comparison between airborne ultrasound and contact ultrasound to intensify air drying of blackberry: heat and mass transfer simulation, energy consumption and quality evaluation
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7803686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33341708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105410
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