This research aimed to investigate the effects of drying temperature (70, 80, 90 and 100oC) on dried coconut residue quality change in terms of oil content, whiteness
value, and to determine suitable drying empirical model. To reduce moisture content of coconut residue from about 1.56 to 0.084 gwater/gdry matter by fluidized bed drying technique (constant velocity at 1.0 m/s), required drying time was in range of 4.3 - 8.0 min. Four of the well-known empirical models Newton, Henderson and Pabis, Page and Midilli et al.,) were fitted to the fluidized bed drying of coconut residue. The Page model has shown an excellent fit to predict drying behavior of the coconut residue because this model gave the highest coefficient of determination (R2), the least chi-square (2) and the lowest root mean square error (RMSE). The higher the drying temperature, the shorter the drying time required. From the quality assessment, oil contents of dried coconut residue samples were close to each other and were higher than that of the fresh residue. Whiteness values of dried coconut residue were in the same range as that of the fresh residue. The dried coconut residue had oil content of 0.250±0.002 to 0.263±0.001 g oil / g dry matter and whiteness value of 87.90±0.15 to 88.33±0.03%.