Author:
Halim L A,Basrawi M F,Yudin A S M,Faizal S N
Abstract
Abstract
Pot-pollen is pollen collected by stingless bee, mixed with honey and bee secretion, and then stored in cerumen pots. Raw pot-pollen contains high moisture content which can lead to excessive fermentation and spoilage. Drying of pot-pollen is needed to preserve them. Typically, elevated temperature can increase the drying performance. However as pot-pollen is heat sensitive, heating above 40 °C is not preferable. Hence, the objective of this study is to explore drying performance of fluidized bed dryer with swirling distributor. The experiment was conducted using three different distributors, a perforated distributor, 45° and 67° swirling distributor, at 1.0 m/s and 1.5 m/s superficial air velocities. The weight of pot-pollen used in this experiment is 50 grams. The drying experiment was conducted at ambient conditions, with no heating being applied to the pot-pollen samples. It was found that 67° swirling distributor at 1.5 m/s superficial air velocity has the highest improvement in terms of drying performance, able to reduce the moisture content from 30.5 % to 18 % for 30 minutes drying time. Hence, using swirling distributor is a suitable enhancement to fluidized bed drying especially for heat sensitive food materials.
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1. Multi-Angle Swirling Fluidized Bed Drying Of Stingless Bees Pot-Pollen;Journal of Physics: Conference Series;2024-01-01
2. Fluidized bed dryers;Drying Technology in Food Processing;2023