Research note: Setting the operating conditions of a vegetables rotary drier by The response surface method

摘要

The temperature and relative humidity of the air are the operating conditions that determine the drier performance, since the time involved and the final water content depend directly on them, and in turn determine the operation costs and the product quality. In this work, the relevant variables governing the drying operation are presented as surfaces, such that once some variables are Fixed, the remaining are univocally set. In our case we have fixed final water content and drying time, usually the variables of Commercial importance, and the air conditions results from the calculation.