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Item Effect of extraction processing parameters using a ribbon blender on the physicochemical properties of coffee(Universidade Federal de Lavras, 2024-07-03) Barriga, Paula Andrea Mayorga; Pardo, Ruth Yolanda Ruiz; Moreno, Fabian Leonardo MorenoIn this work, the effect of the water-coffee ratio, time, and stirring speed, on the total soluble solids, extraction rate, titratable acidity, and extraction yield was evaluated for the percolation of coffee in a horizontal ribbon blender equipment. The coffee extract was obtained in a pilot unit at a constant temperature of 85°C and varying the water-coffee ratio from 4:1 to 10:1; the stirring speed between 30 and 95 RPM and the extraction time from 10 to 60 minutes. It was determined that the water-coffee ratio was the factor that had a significant influence on all the response variables, while time and stirring were significant for the extraction rate and titratable acidity. The optimal setup among the studied conditions was using a water temperature of 85°C, a water-coffee ratio of 4:1, and a stirring speed of 66 RPM for ten minutes. At these conditions, an extract of 5.85% TDS, 14.54% as yield, an extraction rate of 654.8 g/h, and a content of 5.62 mg of CGA/mL was obtained. Hence, this study presents an alternative process to obtain coffee extract in producing soluble coffee at a low industrial scale.Item Numerical approach for prediction of airflow behavior in coffee bean monolayers during dryng process(Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola, 2022-05-02) Bustos-Vanegas, Jaime Daniel; Aragón, Larissa; Gutiérrez-Guzmán, Nelson; Córdoba, NancyThe homogeneity and efficiency of moisture removal from coffee beans depend on the airflow patterns inside the drying chambers used for drying. This study aimed to implement a porous medium model to simulate the airflow through mesh trays containing parchment and ripe fruit coffee ( Coffea arabica L.) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The geometry of the ripe fruit and parchment coffee beans was simplified as spherical and semi-ellipsoidal, respectively. The pressure drop in the normal direction to the monolayer was calculated as the average pressure of the normal planes located 1 mm before and after the bean layer for different air velocities. The viscous and inertial terms were adjusted by nonlinear regression for each case and incorporated into the Navier–Stokes equations as subdomains. The pressure drops calculated by the porous medium model and those calculated using the bean layers presented a good fit. The modeling of the trays as porous media can help reduce the computational resources required for CFD simulations while maintaining an acceptable accuracy.