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Received 20 May 2014
Received in revised form 21 July 2014
Accepted 28 July 2014
Available online 7 August 2014
Keywords:
Image analysis
Mass transfer
Shape change
Water diffusivity
a b s t r a c t
A new methodology based on image analysis was proposed to estimate the simultaneous size reduction
(shrinkage) and shape change (deformation) during food drying. Potato strips (9.525 mm
9.525 mm 80 mm) were used as model system and subjected to convective drying at 50, 60, 70 and
80 C with an air velocity of 2 m/s. Developed protocol was used to analyze the shrinkage-deformation
behavior occurring in minor product dimensions, considered the dominant directions in mass transfer.
To this purpose, 2D perpendicular slices were obtained from original 3D product and their digital images
were processed to evaluate the changes in contour shape, perimeter, and cross-sectional and specic
areas of samples. Product contours were averaged to extract relevant deformation characteristics of dried
samples. Drying and shrinkage data were further used to estimate variable water diffusivities in product
with a previously reported analytical solution for shrinking solids, which was extended to allow for 2D or
3D mass transfer. Studied responses were successfully described as a function of free moisture fraction
(R2 > 0.84). It was demonstrated that shrinkage-deformation behavior was not affected by drying temperature under the tested conditions (p < 0.05). The analysis of averaged contour shapes showed that,
although shrinkage occurs from the beginning of drying, deformation appears at the nal stages, when
the free moisture fraction is below 0.2. Mean water diffusivities were estimated in the range of
3.045.36 1010 m2/s for studied drying temperatures.
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1. Introduction
Food products are complex systems which ordinarily require
the reduction of their water content in order to extend their
shelf-life. In this regard, convective drying with hot air is the most
widely used technique for the production of dehydrated foodstuffs.
Air drying involves several heat and mass transfer mechanisms;
yet, water diffusion within the product described by Ficks second
law is usually considered the controlling factor for modeling and
simulation purposes (da Silva et al., 2014; Pacheco-Aguirre et al.,
2014). This operation is accompanied by several changes in food,
but shrinkage and deformation, besides color, are the most evident.
Thus, the inclusion of food shrinkage is paramount for making a
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Nomenclature
a
A
A
Bim
C
D
d0
d1
e
H
hm
K
k1, k2
L
mp
n
n
N
n1, n2
P
b P
P, P,
S
t
T
u
v
V
X
represents a challenging task both numerically and experimentally. Thus, several studies have focused on the characterization
of macroscopic (external) shrinkage-deformation (SD) characteristics of food products, mainly through using novel image analysis
techniques.
Common properties obtained from digital images related with
product SD behavior include projected area and its corresponding perimeter, as well as selected sample dimensions which
are further used to evaluate secondary indices such as elongation, fractal dimensions, roundness, etc. (Campos-Mendiola
et al., 2007; Yan et al., 2008; Yadollahinia and Jahangiri, 2009;
Yadollahinia et al., 2009; Khazaei et al., 2013). Recently, volume
changes in dried products have been calculated using dimensions obtained from lateral and top digital images including
dual-camera setups (Sampson et al., 2014). However, while the
aforementioned characteristics are related to product quality
indices, reported methodologies do not pursue a further applicability of SD data in the modeling and simulation of drying
processes. For example, projected area is measured in nondominant mass transfer directions (top area in at slices) or is
affected by product bending in lateral views of samples.
Product deformation during drying imposes an additional difculty: no food sample shrinks and deform in the same way, even
under the most controlled conditions. Thus, the use of SD data
for advanced process simulations would require the development
of new protocols to extract relevant descriptors of product behavior. The main objective of this study is to develop and validate a
new methodology based on image analysis to estimate the simultaneous SD during food drying and obtain the representative patterns of this behavior using potato as food model. Besides,
Greek letters
d
distance criterion between two contours
Dx
horizontal translation (m)
Dy
vertical translation (m)
c
denotes the c th cyclic order rotation of coordinates in
product contour
/
rotation angle (rad)
j
height-to-width ratio (dimensionless)
q
volumetric concentration of dry solids (kg dry solids/m3
product)
h
modied Fourier number for mass transfer in shrinkable
products with time-dependent diffusivity (dimensionless)
n
axial coordinate along x-axis (dimensionless)
w, W
free moisture fraction (dimensionless): local and averaged, respectively
f
axial coordinate along y-axis (dimensionless)
Subscripts
0
at the beginning of the drying process
a
for specic area
A
for cross-sectional area
e
at equilibrium
i
at the air-product interface
P
for perimeter
r
any reference product contour
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u ue
mp mpe
u0 ue mp0 mpe
These data were used to estimate the required time to approximately achieve a specic moisture content in product at each drying temperature (from W = 0.1 to W = 0.9 in 0.1 increments) in
order to obtain SD data regularly spaced over this variable in the
second experiment set.
With the purpose of evaluating the SD product behavior, groups
with 5 samples each were formed and dried for the predened
times. Then, a single transversal slice (perpendicular to the largest
dimension) of about 1 mm-thick was cut with a sharp blade from
the central part of the strip. A schematic view of samples along
with its relevant characteristics is shown in Fig. 1. Digital images
of resulting slices were immediately taken. Remaining product
portions were analyzed for their moisture content. The aforesaid
procedure was also applied to fresh (W = 1) and equilibrium-dried
(W = 0) samples. A total of ve slices were obtained for each moisture content-temperature combination.
Required moisture contents were determined by oven-drying
(Binder ED 53, Germany) the samples at 105 C until constant mass
weight (when mass change was less than 0.001 g over an 8 h period). Initial moisture content of product was 84.5 3.1 g water/
100 g product (mean s.d.).
2.2. Image acquisition
Potato slices jointly with a reference object of known dimensions (a black-anodized metal washer of 0.59 cm-diameter) were
placed on a blue paper sheet to provide plenty contrast for background extraction, and their digital images were acquired (Coolpix
L810, Nikon Corp., Japan). Digital camera was positioned with its
sight line normal to the supporting base. Illumination was provided through ordinary 18 W uorescent lamps without special
specications as color standardization was not needed between
images. Images were taken with the maximum available resolution
(4608 3456 pixels) in macro mode with a focal distance of about
0.10 m, using automatic settings. Digital images were stored in
JPEG format. The schematic view of the experimental image acquisition setup is shown in Fig. 2.
2.3. Image analysis
Two rectangular portions containing either the potato slice or
the reference object were manually selected from the original
image for their subsequent handling. Color information in these
images was transformed to the CIELAB color space for their analysis. Thus, every pixel was represented as a vector of color components L*, a* and b*. Afterward, color data were quantized using
S PL 2A PL P
V
AL
AL A
S
PL
P
S0 P 0 L 0 P 0
V
AL
A
V 0 A0 L0 A0
3
4
A
DA 1 DA WnA
A0
P
DP 1 DP WnP
P0
na
a
1 Da ekW
a0
5
6
7
Eqs. (5) and (6) have been used to express the shrinkage behavior of food products during drying (Zielinska and Markowski, 2010;
Garca-Prez et al., 2012; Ruiz-Lpez et al., 2012). Here, parameters
nA and nP both control the deviations from the straight-line behavior, while DA and DP represent the nal fractions of cross-sectional
area and perimeter at the end of drying, respectively. On the other
hand, Eq. (7) is an exponential decay model, similar to Pages
model (Ruiz-Lpez et al., 2012), where Da controls the relative
increase of specic area and k and na dene the decaying rate
and shape of the curve, respectively.
2.5. Mean SD behavior
Fig. 1. Schematic view of potato strips with their initial geometry (right square
prism) and relevant characteristics.
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Fig. 2. Schematic view of experimental setup for image acquisition and sample preparation: (1) digital camera, (2) uorescent lamps, (3) reference object, (4) product slice,
(5) contrast background, (6) adjustable support, (7) dried product strip and (8) sharp blade.
Fig. 3. Image analysis steps used to determine product deformation: (a) original image, (b) simplied image with three color clusters, (c) gray-scale image after removing
non-product color clusters and (d) product contour. Image corresponds to an equilibrium-dried potato strip at 50 C (440 min). Initial contour shape is a square. (For
interpretation of the references to colour in this gure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
xi
xi;1
...
xi;N
...
6 7 6
Pi 4 yi 5 4 yi;1
1
7
. . . yi;N 5
P0i APi
3
cos / sin / Dx
6
7
A 4 sin / cos / Dy 5
0
0
1
10
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xi;c
xi;c
6
7 6
Ti;c 4 yi;c 5 4 yi;c
1
xi;N
xi;1
. . . yi;N
yi;1
...
...
...
xi;c1
7
. . . yi;c1 5
11
...
12
3 2
^i
maxxi xi;1
x
6
bi 6
^i 7
P
yi;1
4y
54
1
1
. . . maxxi xi;N
...
...
yi;N
1
3
7
5
13
Pr
Pi!r
14
@u
@
@u
@
@u
D
D
@t @x
@x
@y
@y
hm
@ui
@ui
H H n Dq
ex n Dq
ey
v i
@x
@y
16
Let us consider that both diffusion coefcient D and characteristic lengths for diffusion X and Y are explicit drying time functions,
i.e., D = D(t), X = X(t) and Y = Y(t). Then, Eqs. (15) and (16) can be
rewritten as
@w @ 2 w 1 @ 2 w
@h @n2 j2 @f2
@w
1 @wi
e
Bim twi n i ex n
@n
j @f y
u ue
w
u0 ue
Dt
@t
@h
Xt2
1
1
@n
@x; @f
@y
Xt
Yt
Yt
1=v
hm
j
; Bim t K
;
Xt
q Dt=Xt
17
18
19
20
21
K
dHi
dX i
22
The term K in Eq. (22) is the local slope of equilibrium curve (an
instantaneous partition coefcient). The variable transformations
in Eqs. (20) and (21) allowed expressing the original problem for
moisture diffusion in a shrinkable body with variable diffusivity
as the simpler case of mass transfer for constant D in a nonshrinkable product (Ruiz-Lpez et al., 2012). However, the
unknown variable nature of Bim(t) in boundary condition (18) represents a difculty for providing an analytical solution to the aforementioned problem. Ruiz-Lpez et al. (2012) demonstrated that if
the internal resistance to mass transfer by diffusion is accepted as
the only mechanism controlling drying rate throughout the drying
process then existing solutions could be used to solve Eqs. (17) and
(18) considering product shrinkage and variable water diffusivity.
Under this assumption boundary condition (18) is simplied to
wi 0
2.6. Modeling of drying data
15
23
Fig. 4. Contour manipulation steps used to determine a representative image of product deformation: (a) original, (b) aligned and (c) averaged contours (black contour was
chosen as the reference one). Contours correspond to an equilibrium-dried potato strip at 70 C.
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Fig. 7. Effect of moisture content on relative specic area of dried potato strips.
A
XY
jX 2
A0 X 0 Y 0 jX 20
or X X 0
p
A=A0
26
27
D
Fig. 6. Effect of moisture content on relative perimeter of dried potato strips.
"
8
1
X
p2
n1
"
8
1
X
p2
n1
1
2n12
1
2n12
exp
2 2
p
2n1
4
2 2
p
exp 2n1
4
#
...
#
24
dh
dt
W2
Z
DWdW
W1
W2
dW
28
W1
dt Xt2 XW2
dh
Dt
DW
with th 0 0
29
j2
Dt Xt2
25
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Table 1
Regression parameters for shrinkage models.
Response
Cross-sectional area
b
Perimeter
Specic area
a
b
c
Parameters
Value
95% CI
R2
DA
nA
DP
nP
Da
k
na
0.1733
0.7222
0.6390
0.9581
2.2641
5.8974
1.1257
0.1469/0.1997
0.6732/0.7712
0.6233/0.6547
0.8625/1.0537
2.1730/2.3553
4.8650/6.9297
1.0002/1.2512
0.9320
0.8460
0.9226
A=A0 DA 1 DA WnA .
P=P 0 DP 1 DP WnP .
na
a=a0 1 Da ekW .
Fig. 8. Final edge deformation of slices cut from dried potato strips.
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Fig. 9. Mean edge deformation of slices cut from dried potato strips (80 C). Inner numbers represent the free moisture fraction reached in product/elapsed drying time (min).
Fig. 10. Comparison of cross-sectional area estimated from original and averaged
contours.
Fig. 11. Comparison of perimeter estimated from original and averaged contours.
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Fig. 13. Experimental (dots) and predicted (lines) potato drying curves in linear (left) and semi logarithmic representations (right).
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y
Tecnologa (CONACYT) for providing nancial support through
project 130011. Betzabeth Ortiz-Garca-Carrasco and Estefana
Yaez-Mota acknowledge their undergraduate scholarship from
CONACYT. Francisco Manuel Pacheco-Aguirre acknowledges his
doctoral scholarship from CONACYT.
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Table 2
Regression parameters for water diffusivity modela.
Parameter
10
d0 10 (m /s)
d1 1011 (m2/sC)
k1(dimensionless)
n1(dimensionless)
k2(dimensionless)
n2(dimensionless)
a
Value
95% CI
1.2333
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7.8981
0.6046
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0.8903/1.1590
4.0639/11.7323
0.4932/0.7161
2.4228/3.4361
5.9278/8.3138
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