Table 10.
Coefficient values in the models describing the air microwave drying of celery stems (50 W).
| Temperature | Equation | Coefficient | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | k | n | b | ||
| 40 °C | Newton | 0.017427 | |||
| Page | 0.014255 | 1.047227 | |||
| Henderson and Pabis | 1.010552 | 0.017610 | |||
| Logarithmic | 1.027051 | 0.016040 | −0.032235 | ||
| Wang and Singh | −0.012455 | 0.000040 | |||
| Logistic | 4.152973 | 0.019920 | 3.210918 | ||
| 60 °C | Newton | 0.037046 | |||
| Page | 0.026993 | 1.090498 | |||
| Henderson and Pabis | 1.021095 | 0.037807 | |||
| Logarithmic | 1.047784 | 0.033581 | −0.043481 | ||
| Wang and Singh | −0.026477 | 0.000179 | |||
| Logistic | 3.092393 | 0.045273 | 2.114567 | ||
| 80 °C | Newton | 0.040419 | |||
| Page | 0.014795 | 1.299569 | |||
| Henderson and Pabis | 1.087218 | 0.043823 | |||
| Logarithmic | 1.173050 | 0.033330 | −0.123665 | ||
| Wang and Singh | −0.029875 | 0.000229 | |||
| Logistic | 1.678319 | 0.065736 | 0.655823 | ||