Name: N Mtshali

Student number: 22013479

Provided Data:
 Dry material weight =12.5 kg
Kg H 2 O
 Wet solid to be dry to free moisture of 0.5
Kgdry solid
 Dry bulb temperature =75℃
 Wet bulb temperature =42.4℃
 Drying area= 10m 2

Table 1: Experiment data and calculated values of Xt and X

Time 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.4
Weight 40 32.9 25.8 18.7 16.4 14.3 13.4 13 13
Xt 2.2 1.63 1.06 0.50 0.31 0.14 0.07 0.04 0.04
X 2.16 1.59 1.02 0.46 0.27 0.10 0.03 0 0

The drying curve below was plotted using table1

Free moisture content versus time

2.5
Free moisture X(Kg H2O/Kg dry solid)

1.5

0.5

0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6
Time t(h)

Figure 1: Drying curve