Performance Analysis and Kinetic Modeling of Coffee Beans in Microwave Convective Dryer Integrated Photovoltaic System

Abstract

The microwave convective dryer integrated photovoltaic has the potential equipment to be used for coffee drying. Therefore, this study aims to examine the performance of microwave convective dryer integrated photovoltaic for coffee bean drying. The kinetics and effectiveness diffusivity were determined to describe the drying process”. Drying model for the coffee bean drying process using variations in sample mass, coffee bean condition, and drying power. The results showed that reducing the water content of coffee beans from 47% (wb) to 11% (wb) required drying times of 10, 8, and 6 minutes at 600 W (medium), 650 W (medium-high), and 700 W (high), respectively. Drying coffee beans with a microwave convective dryer system shows that the Wang and Singh model is the best model for drying coffee beans; resulting in the highest R2 (0.99) and the lowest MBE and RMSE. Therefore, Wang and Singh model can be used to accurately predict the moisture content of dry coffee beans in a microwave convective dryer system. The effective diffusivity of coffee beans increased from 3.19×10-7 m/s to 1.19×10-6 m2/s when the power drying increased from 600 W to 700 W.