studied the effect of the temperature and velocity of the air stream. The former also conducted measurements by altering the humidity of the drying air. In the study of Kaya et al. [4], the values of the imposed temperatures varied from 35 1C to 55 1C, the relative humidity values from 40% to 70% while air velocities from 0.2 ms1 to 0.6 ms1. The authors concluded that increasing the temperature or the velocity of the drying air, the total drying time is decreased, while the relative humidity and the total drying time are related in vice-versa manner.Barroca et al.