Research Article

Moisture Sorption Behavior and Effects of Temperature, Slice Thickness, and Loading Density on Drying Kinetics of a Local Sweet Potato Cultivar Grown in Bangladesh

Table 8

Effect of sample loading density (LD) on drying rate constant at 55°C.

Sweet potatoSample shape
French cutCube cut

LSPS for LD 10.82 kg/m2 for LD 9.72 kg/m2
for LD 21.64 kg/m2 for LD 19.44 kg/m2
for LD 32.46 kg/m2 for LD 29.16 kg/m2