The most widely used commercial drying plants for industrial
agrifood byproducts are conventional hot air driers
(Abano et al. 2011). Here drying of moist materials is a
process involving simultaneous, coupled heat and mass transfer
phenomena, which occur inside the material being, dried
(Sobukola et al. 2007). Most food materials are dried by thin
layer drying (Koua et al. 2013). Thin layer drying (TLD)
means to dry one layer of sample particle or slice (Akpinar
2006) and it forms the basis on which drying properties of
foods are studied since each