Volume 67
Evaluation of Dried Sea Cucumber, Using the Traditional Method, Solar Dryers, and Electric Dryer
Authors
Reyes-Sosa, C., L.A. Rodríguez-Gil, E.E. Peraza-González, and Á.A. Vázquez-Medoza Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2014
Pages: 438
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty seven Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Christ Church
Country: Barbados
Abstract
An analysis of three methods for drying sea cucumber was evaluated traditional method, solar drying, and electric drying in order to find a method that allows us to obtain a product with low moisture content in the shortest possible time to enable rapid commercialization. To this monitoring, weight loss of the samples was performed during drying, and the environmental conditions for solar drying cases. Through traditional drying the final moisture of 3.19% was obtained after 88 h of drying pass for 14 days. The overall solar drying time was 97h, it took 15 days, with a record average temperature inside the drying chamber of 42.5°C, a peak of 62ºC the final moisture content was 7.16%. Electric dryer temperature was constant at 70°C, a total time of 66 hours was required to obtain a product with an average 3.9% of final moisture. Subsequently, a comparison of time and final moisture contents for each type of drying concluding that using electric dryer drying gives a shorter drying operation is performed continuously.