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DRYING STUDY OF EUCALYTPTUS STAIGERIANA LEAVES BY MONITORING THE HUMIDITY OF THE DRYER DISCHARGE
The drying phenomenon can be treated as simultaneous heat and mass transfer in both the
light and heavy phases. In the present case, the phenomenons evolution is normally
observed through the heating of and moisture removal from the heavy phase. On the other
hand, while the material is heating, the light phase is cooling and humidifying. The goal
of the present work is to present discharge air humidification curves as a function of the
drying time for Eucalyptus staigeriana leaves drying experiments. For the air humidification
measurements, a dry bulb thermocouple and relative humidity transducer were installed
at both the dryer inlet and outlet. The dryer was linked to a data acquisition system, which
recorded the dry bulb temperature and the relative humidity with time. These data were
later used to calculate the air moisture content at the dryer inlet and outlet. The data obtained
by this methodology are compared with the ones from drying kinetic (moisture content
removing of the heavy phase along time), acquired by the evolution of wet material weight
through the use of an analytical scale
SEPARATION OF L-TRYPTOPHAN PRESENT IN AN AROMATIC AMINO ACIDS MIXTURE IN A FOUR-COLUMN SIMULATED MOVING BED: EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION STUDIES
An experimental and theoretical study is presented for the fractionation of L-Tryptophan (Trp) from L-phenylalanine (Phe) and L-tyrosine (Tyr). A Simulated-Moving Bed (SMB) with four-column system was tested, and the results are presented as effluent histories of the raffinate and extract ports. L-phenylalanine and L-tyrosine were recovered as major products in the raffinate, while L-Tryptophan was recovered at the extract. To simulate the L-Tryptophan separation, a general rate model was used to represent the mass transfer phenomena that occur in each individual column of the SMB, for each solute present in the multicomponent system. A hybrid method was used to solve the model. An analytic solution was used for the intra-particle concentration, and was correlated to the liquid bed concentration by Duhamel's theorem. The results from simulation are compared with the experimental data presented in this work.26361161