The drying curves of small and large sizes of shrimps dried using inlet drying air temperatures between 40 - 70 °C at an inlet air flow rate of 1.0 ± 0.2 m/s were shown in Figure 5. The experimental results were used to formulate the thin-layer drying equation by curve fitting. The drying kinetics of small and large shrimps had significant relation to the inlet drying air temperature. In addition, the drying at high temperature resulted in increased moisture removal rate compared to that of low temperatures.
Figure 5 shows the comparison of moisture content between experimental and predicted values of small size shrimp at various inlet drying air temperatures. The results also showed that the proposed Page model [Eq. (4)] could predict the moisture content in good agreement with the experimental results.