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Drying Worksheet 5

This document contains a 10 question multiple choice worksheet about drying processes and calculations related to drying rates, critical moisture contents, equilibrium moisture contents, and drying times. The questions require applying drying principles and equations to calculate unknown values like drying rates and times given initial conditions and known parameters of materials and drying processes.

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Worksheet 5
DRYING – 15 minutes
Directions: Encircle the letter of the best answer. Show your correct solution.

1. A wet material having a critical moisture content of 18% (db) and equilibrium moisture content of 5% (db) took 5 hours to dry
from 65% (db) to 15% (db) moisture. What is the time required to dry the same material from 90% (db) to 10% (db)?
(A)6.1969 hr (C) 7.9754 hr
(B)8.3734 hr (D) 9.9185 hr

2. A 100 kg batch granular solids containing 30% moisture is to be dried in a tray drier to 12% of moisture by passing a current of
air to 350 K tangentially across its surface at a velocity of 1.8 m/s. If the constant rate of drying under these conditions is 0.80
g/m2-s and the critical moisture content is 10%, the drying time is approximately equal to ______________. Assume the drying
surface to be equal to 0.03 m2/kg dry weight.
(A) 8.33 h (C) 5.83 h
(B) 3.38 h (D) 7.53 h

3. A wet solid slab weighing 200 kg with a drying surface of I m 2 /75 kg is to be dried
from 40 to 20 % moisture. Drying test have shown that t hi s drying takes place at constant rate
and that the critical moisture of the solid is 20 %. The constant drying rate is 0.03 kg /m2. min. The drying time (min) is closest
to
(A) 1500 (C) 1050
(B) 2000 (D) 500

4. 100 pounds of a wet solid were loaded in a tray drier at a moisture content of 60% wet basis. The overall drying rate was constant
for 4 hours at 11 lb/h. After that, the rate decreased linearly with moisture content of the dry solid. The equilibrium moisture
content of the solid is 4%. The total moisture content on wet basis 3 hours after the rate started declining is very nearly
(A) 30.6 (C) 23.4
(B) 40.0 (D) 20.0

Situation for problems 5-6:


A wet solid is dried from 40 to 15% moisture in 5 hours under constant drying conditions. The critical moisture is 20% and the
equilibrium moisture is 5%. Calculate:

5. The additional time that it would take to dry the material to 10% moisture.
(A) 2.5 h (C) 3.6 h
(B) 1.45 h (D) 4.43 h
6. If the solid, a 5 cm thick slab is to be dried from both sides and has a density of 1920 kg/m 3, what is the drying rate (kg/h.m 2) at a
moisture content of 10%?
(A) 2.5 h (C) 3.6 h
(B) 1.45 h (D) 4.43 h

7. A wet material having a critical moisture content of 15% (d.b.) and an equilibrium moisture content of 3% (d.b.) took 6 hours to
dry from 45% (d.b.) to 10% moisture. The time it will take to dry to 15% moisture (d.b.) is
(A) 5 hours (C) 5.5 hours
(B) 4 hours (D) none of these

8. The initial moisture content of a food product is 77% ( wet basis), and the critical moisture content is 30%(wet basis). If the
constant drying rate is 0.1 kg H2O / m2.s, compute the time required for the product to begin the falling rate drying period. The
product has a cube shape with 5- cm sides, and the initial product density is 950 kg/m3.
(A) 23.4 s (C) 48.5 s
(B) 34.6 s (D) 53.2 s

9. A tunnel dryer is being designed for drying apple halves from an initial moisture content of 79% (wet basis) to a final moisture
content of 5%(wet basis). An experimental drying curve for the product indicates that the critical moisture content is 25% (wet
basis) and the time for constant rate drying is 5 minutes. Based on information provided, estimate the total drying time for the
product. Assume 1 kg of product is the basis.
(A) 4.25 min (C) 6.54 minutes
(B) 5.81 min (D) 6.89 min

10. A porous solid is dried in a batch dryer under constant drying conditions. Five hours were required to reduce the moisture content
from 30 to 12 lb water/lb dry solid. The critical moisture content is 18 lb water/lb dry solid and the equilibrium moisture is 5 lb
water / lb dry solid. If the drying rate during the FRP is a straight line through the origin, calculate the time required to dry the
solid from 30 to 8 lb water/lb dry solid.
(A) 4.75 h (C) 10.15 h
(B) 7.74 h (D) 15.2 h

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