Análisis térmico del proceso de secado de gelatina para determinar su eficiencia en la empresa Prodegel S.A.

Abstract

This project was born because in the company PRODEGEL S.A. It is necessary to obtain the efficiency of a tunnel-type gelatin dryer since at the moment it presents problems of humidity in the product, presenting on some occasions of the day a humidity greater than that required and on others a lower percentage of humidity. The experimental method was used and the parameters with which the dryer worked were collected, where the humidity value was obtained at 10.3 percent at the exit of the equipment, this corresponding to days in which the dryer worked with an approximate load of 12 kg/min in wet product, according to the data collected it is estimated that the equipment removes 57.2 percent of moisture from the gelatin noodle, that is to say that more than half of the input product was water, obtaining a flow of gelatin of 5.14 kg/min of dry product, the dryer band worked with a speed of 9.5 cm/min, using a total of 3 hours and 32 minutes to leave the noodle to be crushed. As a result, a yield of the noodle drying process corresponding to 56.31 percent was obtained. When analyzing the gelatin noodle according to the quality department, the noodle should have a humidity percentage of 11 percent at the exit of the dryer, and this percentage was obtained by raising the speed of the belt from 9.5 cm/min to 11 .5 cm/min, obtaining satisfactory results.