Metodă de deshidratare a fructelor cu consum redus de energie

Abstract

This article describes a low-energy fruit dehydration method. To evaluate the eff ectiveness of this method, an experimental fruit dehydration plant of the tunnel type was developed, on the basis of which the studies were carried out. Convection and microwaves have been used to treat the fruits during the dehydration process. The results obtained on the basis of the proposed method were compared with those obtained when using the classical dehydration method. Thus, studies have shown that dehydration of fruits by the new method allows of reducing electric energy consumption by 4.69 times.