Xue-cheng WANG, Chao-chao KANG, Zhen-feng WU, et al. Simulation of Drying Process of Single Liuwei Dihuangwan and Analysis of Its Dynamics Based on Weibull Function[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2019, 25(12): 133-139.
DOI:
Xue-cheng WANG, Chao-chao KANG, Zhen-feng WU, et al. Simulation of Drying Process of Single Liuwei Dihuangwan and Analysis of Its Dynamics Based on Weibull Function[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2019, 25(12): 133-139. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20190211.
Simulation of Drying Process of Single Liuwei Dihuangwan and Analysis of Its Dynamics Based on Weibull Function
Taking single Liuwei Dihuangwan(LDW) as the research object
the moisture content change and volumetric shrinkage characteristics in its drying process were investigated
which provided the theoretical basis for improving the drying efficiency of the pills and reducing the quality problems of the pattern pills
crusts and crack pills.
Method:
2
The drying characteristics of LDW at drying temperature of 50
75
100
125 ℃ were studied by constant temperature hot air drying and vacuum drying.Based on sphere model of Fick's second law and Arrhenius equation
the effective diffusion coefficient and activation energy of the drying process were obtained.The volumetric shrinkage characteristics of the pills during the drying process were studied by the projected area method.The Weibull function was used to fit the drying dynamics curve of single LDW.
Result:
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Hot air drying and vacuum drying of LDW both belonged to the decreasing drying processes
and the time required to achieve the same moisture content in vacuum drying was shorter than that in hot air drying.The moisture ratio in the drying process of single LDW obeyed the Weibull function distribution(
R
2
=0.994 5-0.999 7)
the scale parameter(
α
) decreased with the increase of temperature
and drying temperature had significant influence on the shape parameter (
β
). The effective diffusion coefficients of hot air drying and vacuum drying were 2.626×10
-3
-7.823×10
-2
3.782×10
-3
-9.042×10
-2
m
2
·s
-1
their activation energy were 47.18
42.69 kJ·mol
-1
respectively.The volume ratio of hot air drying and vacuum drying of LDW ranged from 0.638 to 0.741 and 0.607 to 0.689
respectively.
Conclusion:
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Weibull function can be adopted to predict the drying and dehydration law of LDW.Under the condition of low temperature drying
slow-down of shrinkage rate of the pills is helpful to prevent the formation of splitting pills
this study provides theoretical and technical basis for dying of LDW.
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