DETERMINATION OF THE DRYING VARIABLES FOR DEHYDRATION OF BANANA PULP SHEETS ( Musa paradisiaca L . )
@inproceedings{Cerquera2017DETERMINATIONOT, title={DETERMINATION OF THE DRYING VARIABLES FOR DEHYDRATION OF BANANA PULP SHEETS ( Musa paradisiaca L . )}, author={N{\'e}stor Enrique Cerquera and Eduardo Pastrana and J. Castro}, year={2017} }
Bananas are, after coffee, Colombia's most important agricultural product. Post-harvest losses and the emergence of new markets for processed products; make it convenient to the introduction of technologies to its most efficient use. In this paper, banana pulp (Musa paradisiaca L.) is characterized and the drying variables are determined to obtain dried pulp sheet. To achieve this, equipment for testing static drying is designed and built, and banana pulp is characterized by determining…
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