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. 2011 Feb 20;50(1):122–128. doi: 10.1007/s13197-011-0313-4

Table 1.

Effective diffusion coefficients of water (Dew) during dehydration for different pretreatments

Pretreatments Km (h−1) Dew × 10−9 (m2/s) m (kg/kg)
Control 0.138 1.555 0.009
NaOH pretreatment 0.320 3.598 0.020
Citric acid pretreatment 0.323 3.636 0.022
Enzyme pretreatment 0.357 4.023 0.013