Title : ( Modeling and Optimization of Mass Transfer during Osmosis Dehydration of Carrot Slices by Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms )
Authors: Mohebbat Mohebbi , Mohammad Reza Akbarzadeh Totonchi , Fakhri Shahidi , Seyed Mohsen Zabihi ,Access to full-text not allowed by authors
Abstract
Osmotic dehydration, as a minimal processing method, has found increasingly wide prospects during the past few decades. This process involves mass transfer which is commonly modeled by applications of different procedures, mostly based on Fick\'s law. In this research, we approach the modeling process by first obtaining experimental measurement of carrot’s solid gain and water loss under different conditions of solution concentrations ( 20, 40 and 60% w/w), temperatures ( 40, 60 and 80°C) as well as time intervals (1-6h). Then two paradigms of artificial neural networks (ANN), feed forward neural networks (FFNN) and radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN) are applied and compared for modeling this process. Additionally, genetic algorithm is used to determine optimal conditions for osmotic dehydration.
Keywords
, osmotic dehydration, neural networks, RBFNN, genetic algorithms, modeling, optimization@article{paperid:1020562,
author = {Mohebbi, Mohebbat and Akbarzadeh Totonchi, Mohammad Reza and Shahidi, Fakhri and Zabihi, Seyed Mohsen},
title = {Modeling and Optimization of Mass Transfer during Osmosis Dehydration of Carrot Slices by Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms},
journal = {International Journal of Food Engineering},
year = {2011},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
month = {January},
issn = {2194-5764},
pages = {1--21},
numpages = {20},
keywords = {osmotic dehydration; neural networks; RBFNN; genetic algorithms; modeling;
optimization},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Modeling and Optimization of Mass Transfer during Osmosis Dehydration of Carrot Slices by Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
%A Mohebbi, Mohebbat
%A Akbarzadeh Totonchi, Mohammad Reza
%A Shahidi, Fakhri
%A Zabihi, Seyed Mohsen
%J International Journal of Food Engineering
%@ 2194-5764
%D 2011