A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental

A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental

This paper presents a basic work that supplies complementary knowledge and open new perspectives to mathematical modeling of salami ripening. An experimental apparatus was realized for controlled meat drying and its procedure set up in order to allow a simple, but significant investigation on the fa...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Cascone, Daniele Sofia, Michele Miccio, Massimo Poletto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2019-06-01
Series:Chemical Engineering Transactions
Online Access:https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/9744
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spelling doaj-bdb66deaf91a4582a43d912af44bf5c62021-02-16T21:01:57ZengAIDIC Servizi S.r.l.Chemical Engineering Transactions2283-92162019-06-017510.3303/CET1975086A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: ExperimentalGiovanni CasconeDaniele SofiaMichele MiccioMassimo PolettoThis paper presents a basic work that supplies complementary knowledge and open new perspectives to mathematical modeling of salami ripening. An experimental apparatus was realized for controlled meat drying and its procedure set up in order to allow a simple, but significant investigation on the fate of water contained and transported in a minced meat matrix, at various times throughout the drying process. The experimental results are discussed in terms of weight loss as well as space and time profiles of moisture in the specimen. Then, they are favorably compared to the predictions of a mathematical model of drying, which is based on a porous media description of the minced meat and simply adopts a literature correlation of moisture diffusion. To this end, the Comsol Multiphysics®4.3 software was used, with the “transport in porous media” physics.https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/9744
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Chemical Engineering Transactions
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title A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental
title_short A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental
title_full A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental
title_fullStr A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental
title_full_unstemmed A Study on Meat Drying Process Using the Porous Media Approach. Part 1: Experimental
title_sort study on meat drying process using the porous media approach. part 1: experimental
publisher AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.
series Chemical Engineering Transactions
issn 2283-9216
publishDate 2019-06-01
description This paper presents a basic work that supplies complementary knowledge and open new perspectives to mathematical modeling of salami ripening. An experimental apparatus was realized for controlled meat drying and its procedure set up in order to allow a simple, but significant investigation on the fate of water contained and transported in a minced meat matrix, at various times throughout the drying process. The experimental results are discussed in terms of weight loss as well as space and time profiles of moisture in the specimen. Then, they are favorably compared to the predictions of a mathematical model of drying, which is based on a porous media description of the minced meat and simply adopts a literature correlation of moisture diffusion. To this end, the Comsol Multiphysics®4.3 software was used, with the “transport in porous media” physics.
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