Research Article

Harmonizing Drying Time, Layer Thickness, and Drier Zones for Drying Kinetics: Quality and Safety of Solar Tunnel-Dried Wet-Processed Parchment Coffee (Coffea arabica L.)

Table 4

Effective diffusivity of the parchment coffee dried under different drying zones with different thicknesses.

Drier zonesLayer thicknessDiffusivity (m2/s)

Open sun2 cm1.57-06
4 cm1.68-06
6 cm1.2-06

Zone 12 cm2.8-06
4 cm2.51-06
6 cm2.15-06

Zone 22 cm3.48-06
4 cm4.12-06
6 cm1.98-06

Zone 32 cm5.03-06
4 cm2.44-06
6 cm1.89-06