A review of the literature on drying of agricultural products revealed that no efforts have been made to measure the drying rates of dates under heated air conditions. In the present work on thin-layer drying, studies were conducted in alaboratory dryer. Drying curves for one date variety were obtained for three dry bulb temperatures (37, 49 and 61℃). A thin-layer drying equation has been proposed and was found to describe the drying characteristics of the date variety underconsideration reasonably well.
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