In this study, characteristic drying behaviour and kinetics of blue mussel,
which is dried with the traditional methods of cabinet-type, oven and vacuum
oven, are studied. In cabinet-type drier there is an air flow in oven there
is no air flow. In each method, Deff and Ea are calculated and the colour
analysis are done. According to the results, mussels are dried between
270-120 min, 570-300 min and 390-210 min, for the cabinet-type dryer, oven
and vacuum oven, respectively. In each method, Midilli & Kucuk model best
fits experimental data with high coefficient of determination (R2) between
0.9995-0.9984, 0.9996-0.9993, and 0.9997-0.9993 for cabinet-type, oven and
vacuum oven, respectively. Deff values were calculated between
1.89-4.94.10-9 m2/s, 0.89-1.63.10-9 m2/s and 1.17-2.28.10-9 m2/s for
cabinet-type dryer, oven and vacuum oven methods, respectively. Also, Ea
values were found as 46.90, 29.57 and 32.85 kJ/mol, for cabinet-type dryer,
oven and vacuum oven methods, respectively. The colour change was slightly
affected by the change in the temperature.