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Modeling drying kinetics of paneer using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
Shivmurti Srivastav* and BK Kumbhar1

*Associate Professor, Department of Food Processing Technology, A D Patel Institute of Technology, New V V
nagar, Anand, Gujarat-388121, India.
1
  G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand-263145, India.

                                        Abstract
                                               Empirical model of low pressure superheated steam of Paneer were
                                        developed. Effect of steam pressure and temperature on drying time was
*Corresponding author:                  evaluated. Page model showed higher R2 (0.997) and lower SD (0.0043)
                                        compared to generalized exponential and logarithmic models. The average
Shivmurti Srivastav (PhD)               value of parameter k and n for 1cm-cube paneer varied from 0.0041 to
                                        0.0067 and 1.1552 to 1.2209, respectively while that for 1.5 cm-cube were
Email: shivmurtis@gmail.com             from 0.0021 to 0.0044 and 1.1987 to 1.3032, respectively. Moisture
                                        content, drying rate and moisture ratio data were generated by conducting
                                        the experiments in low pressure superheated steam dryer. Optimized ANN
Received: 20/01/2014                    models were developed for rapid and more accurate prediction of moisture
                                        content with one hidden layers and nine nurons having R2 0.9993, drying
Revised: 02/03/2014                     rate with one hidden layers and five neurons having R2 0.9977 and moisture
                                        ratio with two hidden layers and seven neurons having R2 0.9997 in drying.
Accepted: 02/03/2014                    ANN modeling can be used for predicting moisture content, drying rate and
                                        moisture ratio.

                                        Keywords: Artficial Neural Networks, Superheated steam, Drying,
                                        Paneer.
Introduction                                               (ANN) to food processing have opened up novel
        Food industry is always looking for a drying       possibilities for processing industries (Susan, 1998).
method which is rapid, energy efficient and yielding       ANN has the capabilities of learning from the inputs
uniform, hygienic and safe products (Nema et al.,          and outputs and developing relationship between them
2013). Superheated steam drying is a potential method      that can be used for further prediction of outputs for the
due to its several advantages. Product maintained          given inputs. For nonlinear problems, ANN is a most
higher porosity and better rehydration. Absence of         promising alternative technique (Banggard and
oxidative reactions (enzymatic browning, lipid             Thodberg, 1992). The advantage of ANN over rule-
oxidation), high heat transfer coefficients, higher        based model is that, if the process under analysis
drying rates, energy saving due to latent heat supplied    changes, new examples can be added and ANN model
to the dryer can be recovered. This drying method is       can be trained. This is much easier than determining
environment friendly since it is a closed system, no       new models or rules.
explosion or fire hazard, combination of drying with               During last few years, interest in using Artificial
other product treatment like pasteurization or             Neural Networks (ANNs) as a modeling tool in food
sterilization of food stuffs (Devahastin et al, 2004;      technology is increased. ANNs have been successfully
Deventer and Heijmans, 2001). The superheated steam        used in several food applications like model for
acts both as heat source and as drying medium to take      prediction of physical properties of dried carrot,
away the evaporated water. In process control, the main    prediction of dryer performance, extrusion processing
objectives are food safety, high quality and yield at      of wheat and wheat-black soybean, energy
minimal costs. To obtain high quality products, on-line    requirements for size reduction of wheat, grain drying
control techniques are required. Most food processes       process, dough rheological properties among others
are highly nonlinear, with time varying dynamics,          (Islam et al., 2003, Kerdpiboon et al., 2006; Huang et
which complicates food automation. However, the            al., 1993; Shihani et al., 2004; Fang et al., 2000; Farkas
recent developments in artificial intelligence based       et al., 2000; Ruan et al., 1995). Artificial neural
advanced control tools such as artificial neural network   networks are mathematical models which have the
                                                           capability of relating the input and output parameters,

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learning from examples through iteration, without          pipeline to increase the steam temperature to desired
requiring a prior knowledge of the relationships           level of superheating. Temperature was controlled by
between the process parameters. Several neural             dimmerstat.
network structures have been described, but the most               The sample holder was made using thin
commonly used is the multilayer perception. This           stainless steel sheet into a circular disc with 15 cm
network comprises an input and an output layer of          diameter. It was connected to a balance by a thin rod
processing units interconnected via one or more hidden     passing through a G.I. pipe. One side of the rod was
layers.                                                    attached to the sample holder and other side was rested
        Keeping the advantages of ANN, the present         on analytical digital balance (Model XB-320M, Adair
study was undertaken, to develop Artificial Neural         Dutt and Co. (I) Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata). The balance was
Network (ANN) models for drying kinetics of paneer         placed in a smaller chamber. The balance had a
using superheated steam drying methods.                    weighing capacity of 320g with a least count of 0.001g.
                                                           Size of balance was 210 × 340 × 89 mm. The operating
Materials and Methods                                      temperature of the balance was 10°-50°C. The data
       Paneer was kept at 4°C in a refrigerator until      recorded by the balance was transferred through the
use. The initial moisture content of paneer was about      serial cable by software to a computer (Remote Control
50% (wb). It was diced in to a cube of two different       Version 1.0.38. Adair Dutt and Co. (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
sizes of 1×1×1cm3 and 1.5×1.5×1.5 cm3 with stainless       Kolkata). Chromel - Alumel (K type) thermocouples
steel knife. Paneer was pretreated with solution           were installed to measure temperature of superheated
containing 2.5% sodium chloride and 0.5% potassium         steam at inlet of drying chamber, drying chamber,
sorbate at 50°C for 10 min. About 50g paneer cubes         product and balance chamber continuously. These
were dipped into 500 mL solution. After pretreatment       thermocouples were connected to the data logger
cubes were then removed, and drained using stainless       (Model 1551C12, Digitech, Roorkee, India). The
steel mesh. The pretreatment was given to prevent fat      temperature range of data logger was 0-900°C and
loss from the paneer and browning. Before drying           accuracy better than ±0.5%. Scan rate was 1-99
samples were blotted to remove the surface moisture        s/channel. Thermocouple signals multiplexed and
and put in the drying chamber. Drying experiments          transferred to the computer through Terminal Software,
were conducted at 62°, 72° and 82°C temperatures and       installed in PC. A vacuum pump (Make Kirloskar
10, 14 and 18 kPa absolute pressures with superheated      Pneumatic Co. Ltd, Pune, India) was used to maintain
steam.                                                     the desired vacuum in the drying chamber.

Experimental setup                                         Drying experiments
       Experimental setup of low pressure superheated              Prior to conducting the experiments, the steam
steam dryer with its accessories is shown schematically    was generated in the autoclave and maintained at
in Fig 1. Main components of the experimental setup        103kPa. The drying chamber was heated using side
were steam generator, drying chamber, vacuum pump          wall electric heaters to maintain drying chamber
and data acquisition system with computer. The drying      temperature at 50°Cand to prevent condensation of
chamber consisted of a box insulated properly with         steam in the drying chamber. Once the desired drying
rock wool. Inner dimensions of insulated chamber were      chamber temperature obtained, approximately 50g of
40 × 45 × 45 cm. Two electric heaters of 1.5 kW            pretreated sample was placed in the drying chamber.
capacities each were provided on opposite side walls of    Vacuum pump was switched on to maintain to desired
the drying chamber. The temperature of drying              operating pressure. After it steam inlet valve was
chamber was controlled by a temperature controller         opened slowly to flash the steam into the drying
knob provided in front of drying chamber. Thermostat       chamber. The steam temperature with respect to the
was provided to maintain the temperature inside the        desired pressure was controlled by a heating tape
drying chamber. The drying chamber was connected by        placed on the steam pipe. Ratio of the steam pressure in
a pipe from bottom to a chamber in which digital           the steam reservoir to that in the drying chamber was
balance was kept. An autoclave was used as a steam         rather high, the effect of adiabatic expansion of steam
generator and a steam reservoir. The pressure of steam     introduced in to the drying chamber on the steam
was maintained using auto cut controls. A steam trap       temperature was rather small. Therefore, required
was provided to reduce accumulation of steam               steam temperature was achieved by controlling the
condensate in the reservoir. Steam was transported to      electric heater placed in the drying chamber. Sample
the drying chamber through a pipe insulated with glass     weight was recorded continuously in the computer at
wool. A heating tape, rated 1kw was mounted on steam       1min interval. Also, the temperature of drying
                                                           chamber, product, steam and balance chamber were

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recorded by data logger at 1min interval. The samples       to produce the corresponding output that may be passed
were dried until the desired final moisture content of      on to other neurons.
about 1% db was obtained. Experiments were
performed at 10, 14 and 18 kPa absolute pressure and        Training and testing algorithms
62, 72 and 82°C steam temperature. All experiments                 MATLB software was used for Artificial Neural
were replicated thrice. Same procedure was followed to      Networks (ANN) modeling. The networks were
dry all sizes of paneer cubes.                              simulated based on a multilayer feed forward neural
                                                            network. This type of network is very powerful in
Empirical modeling                                          function optimization modeling (Kerdpiboon, 2006).
       Moisture ratio data were fitted to Page,             The input layer, hidden layers, and output layer
Generalized exponential and Logarithmic model in            structures are shown in Fig 2. The inputs parameters
order to select the best predictive model for low           selected for modeling other than drying time and
pressure superheated steam drying of paneer cubes.          weights are given in Table 1:
The models are given below:
                                                                    Table 1: Input parameters for modeling
Page model:
     M − Mo                                               Method of                 Back propagation
MR =
     Mo − Me
             =Exp −kθ
                     n
                       (   )             (1)              computation
                                                          Algorithm                 Levenberg -Marquardt
                                                          for minimization of
where
                                                          error
θ = Drying time
k, n = Model constants                                    The network training      Different size of epochs
                                                          Goal                      Minimum error
Generalized exponential model:
         M − Mo                                           Transfer functions        Hyperbolic tangent,
 MR =             = A Exp ( − kθ )       (2)              Linear                    sigmoid transfer
        Mo − Me
                                                                                    function transfer function
 Where
 A, k = Drying constant                                     The inputs included the time of drying and weight
                                                            changing with time. The output layer consisted of %db,
Logarithmic model:                                          rate of drying (dm/dθ) and MR. The number of hidden
      M − Mo                                                layers were two and number of neurons in each hidden
MR =         =a + b ln(θ)               (3)                 layer varied from 1 to 9 (3, 5, 7, or 9). The networks
     Mo − Me                                                were simulated with the learning rate equal to 0.05. For
Where                                                       training and testing of ANN configuration different
                                                            ratio of data sets were examined. It was found that 50%
a,b =Dryingconstants                                        of data set used for training and 50% for testing
                                                            predicted the best output.
ANN description of the drying process
       The neural network model consisted of an input,      Selection of optimal ANN configuration
a hidden and an output layer. The input layer has two               The optimal configurations from training and
nodes, which corresponded to two processing                 testing for each neuron were selected based on neural
conditions or independent variables: time of drying and     network predictive performance, which gave the
corresponding weight of the sample. The output layer        minimum error from training process. The mean
consisted of three neurons or dependent variables,          relative error (MAE), Standard deviation of MAE
representing the moisture content (% db), drying rate       (STDA), Percentage of relative mean square error (%
and moisture ratio (Shrivastav and Kumbhar, 2009).          MRE), and standard deviation of % MRE (STDR) were
The nodes and the neurons were connected to each            used to compare the performances of various ANN
other by weighted links, wij , over which signals can       moels (Kerdpiboon, 2006; Torrecilla, 2007).
pass. The arriving signals multiplied by the connection
weights are first summed (activation function) and then
passed through the sigmoid function (transfer function)     Results and Discussion
                                                                   Page, generalized exponential equation and
                                                            logarithmic that enable prediction of drying curves of

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                                                                       For simulation it is generally not convenient to
            Input layer   Hidden layers   Output
               (i)            (j)          (k)                  use individual value of page’s equation parameters k
                                                                and n at selected experimental conditions. Therefore, it
          Bi                                       Bi           was decided to develop a model relating the page
Time                                                    %db     equation parameters to temperature and pressure. A
                                                        dm/dt
                                                                non linear regression analysis with second degree
                                                                polynomial equation was used to determine
Weight                                                  MR
                                                                dependence of k and n on temperature and pressure.
                                                                The polynomial relation for k and n is given in
                                                                equation 4. Detailed coefficients for drying constants k
                                                                and n are given in Table 4 at different operating
 Fig 2: Theoretical architecture of multilayer neural           conditions. These models were developed in MATLAB
       network for prediction of moisture content,              software.
       drying rate and moisture ratio

 paneer cubes undergoing low pressure superheated               k 'or n' = AT
                                                                            1
                                                                              2
                                                                                + B1T + C1                                            (4)
                                                                                           2
 steam drying were evaluated. The results of regression           A1 = a1 + a2 P + a3 P
 analysis are given in Table 2. It was found that Page
 model had higher R2 and lower standard deviation
                                                                  B1 = b1 + b2 P + b3 P 2
 compared to other two models all experiments.                    C1 = c1 + c2 P + c3 P 2
 Therefore, Page model was selected for further data              A, B, C , a1 , a2 , a3 , b1 , b2 , b3 , c1 , c2 , c3 areconstants
 analysis.
        The values of k and n were obtained at different          where P is pressure, kPa and T is temperature, 0C
 drying conditions of temperature and pressure for 1.0
 and 1.5 cm cube. The average values of k and n at each                The ANN modeling thus obtained for moisture
 condition are reported in Table 3. The average value of        content, moisture ratio and drying rate summarized that
 parameter k and n for 1cm cube paneer varied from              the individual drying data set of temperatures i.e. 62,
 0.0041 to 0.0067 and 1.1552 to 1.2209, respectively            72 and 820C for each pressure and size (Eighteen ANN
 while that for 1.5 cm cube were from 0.0021 to 0.0044          models), combining drying data at all temperatures for
 and 1.1987 to 1.3032, respectively.                            each pressure (Six ANN models), combining drying

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data at all pressures for each temperature (Six ANN               hidden layer. Each combination of hidden layers and
models), combining all drying data for temperatures,              neurons per hidden layer was trained.
pressures and size (Six ANN models). Each data set                       Relative mean square error (MAE), Standard
was divided in to two groups, consisting of 50% for               deviation of MAE (STDA), Percentage of relative mean
training and 50% for testing. During training, the data           square error (% MRE) and Standard deviation of
set was used to determine the optimum number of                   %MRE (STDR) and R2 along with number of hidden
hidden layers, neurons per hidden layer that gave the             layers and neurons in each hidden layer are reported for
best predictive power. Architecture of artificial neural          one set of data for illustration in Table 5.
network was hidden layers 1 and 2 and neurons 3-9 per

    Table 2: Parameters of equations obtained from linear regression of drying data for different drying models

                                                                               Standard Deviation between observed and
                                                      R2
              Drying                                                                  predicted moisture ratios
  Size of                 Pressure
            Temperature                        Generalized                     Page’s     Generalized Logarithmic
  Paneer       (0C)        (kPa)       Page’s                Logarithmic
                                              exponential                      model      exponential      model
                                       model    model          model
                                                                                             model
                                             Superheated Steam Drying
                            10         0.9945   0.9686       0.9100            0.0010        0.0145         0.0119
                62          14         0.9934   0.9563       0.9739            0.0015        0.0109         0.0111
                            18         0.9961   0.9665       0.9735            0.0011        0.0086         0.0100
                            10         0.9859   0.9656       0.9155            0.0030        0.0171         0.0109
  1.0.cm-
                            14         0.9934   0.9839       0.9767            0.0020        0.0116         0.0126
   cube         72
                            18         0.9879   0.9683       0.9767            0.0031        0.0222         0.0114
                            10         0.9845   0.9350       0.9776            0.0041        0.0275         0.0145
                            14         0.9869   0.9674       0.9771            0.0036        0.0209         0.0145
                82
                            18         0.9772   0.9569       0.9771            0.0043        0.0284         0.0120
                            10         0.9782   0.8455       0.9100            0.0025        0.0228         0.2862
                            14         0.9972   0.9880       0.9156            0.0016        0.0035         0.2931
                62
                            18         0.9934   0.9823       0.9161            0.0020        0.0043         0.2754
                            10         0.9888   0.9556       0.9082            0.0014        0.0113         0.3052
  1.5 cm-
                            14         0.9873   0.9860       0.9173            0.0017        0.0044         0.3048
   cube         72
                            18         0.9939   0.9929       0.9171            0.0013        0.0062         0.2864
                            10         0.9917   0.9205       0.9094            0.0010        0.0208         0.3229
                            14         0.9939   0.9629       0.9198            0.0015        0.0176         0.3219
                82
                            18         0.9953   0.9656       0.9203            0.0011        0.0130         0.3005

                                     Table 3: Parameters of Page Equation (LPSSD)

      Temperature             Pressure                       K                                  N
            (0C)               (kPa)          1cm cube           1.5 cm cube      1cm cube          1.5 cm cube
                                 10            0.0041               0.0021         1.2209              1.3032
                                 14            0.0038               0.0032         1.2152              1.2226
                62
                                 18            0.0050               0.0028         1.1568              1.2336
                                 10            0.0054               0.0026         1.1960              1.2772
                                 14            0.0050               0.0035         1.1917              1.2162
                72
                                 18            0.0054               0.0034         1.2005              1.2115
                                 10            0.0062               0.0031         1.1843              1.2618
                                 14            0.0061               0.0044         1.1805              1.1987
                82
                                 18            0.0067               0.0039         1.1552              1.1957

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       Table 4: Coefficients for Constants K' and N' of Paneer Dried With Low Pressure Superheated Steam

                                         For K'                              For N'
            Coefficients
                              1.0 cm-cube    1.5 cm-cube          1.0 cm-cube    1.5 cm-cube
                     a1       5.625E-06       -3.594E-05           -2.119E-03      1.180E-03
                     a2       -1.750E-06       5.625E-06            3.754E-04     -1.738E-04
                     a3       9.375E-08       -2.031E-07           -1.569E-05      6.109E-06
                     b1       -9.050E-04       5.134E-03            3.099E-01     -1.810E-01
                     b2       2.845E-04       -7.963E-04           -5.520E-02      2.642E-02
                     b3       -1.475E-05       2.878E-05            2.308E-03     -9.290E-04
                     c1       4.590E-02       -1.874E-01          -1.006E+01       8.594E+00
                     c2       -1.211E-02       2.915E-02           2.018E+00      -1.059E+00
                     c3       6.010E-04      -1.051E-03-           -8.443E-02      3.697E-02

       In table 5 the minimum MRE was found with           required to lower the error if there are enough number
one hidden layers and nine neurons for moisture            of neurons (Torrecilla et al., 2005). The best prediction
content (dry basis), one hidden layers and five neurons    for most of the data set contained two hidden layers.
for drying rate and two hidden layers and seven            ANN developed for combined drying data had slightly
neurons for moisture ratio at 620C and 10kPa for 1.0       higher error than individual conditions. Minimum and
cm-cube paneer. The results showed that the number of      maximum error involved between actual and predicted
hidden layers, and neurons per hidden layer, that          values were 2.1657 – 3.929, 0.0555 – 0.0692 and
yielded minimum error was different for each drying        0.0207 – 0.0416 for moisture content, drying rate and
technique. A large number of hidden layers is not          moisture ratio respectively.

                                              %db

                                                                                                            MR

                                              dm/dt

                           Fig 3: Correlation between predicted and experimental values

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        Plots of experimentally determined moisture                     Neural Network Model were fitted in the drying data.
 content, drying rate and moisture ratio versus ANN                     The empirical models were analyzed for best prediction
 predicted values for all combined data are shown in Fig                of moisture ratio. The best models were selected on the
 3. The correlation coefficients were greater than 0.98 in              basis of maximum coefficient of determination (R2)
 all cases. For all combined data set with superheated                  and standard deviation (SD). ANN modeling was done
 steam, the R2 was found 0.9975, 0.9934 and 0.9983 for                  at two hidden layers (1 and 2) and nine neurons (3, 5,
 moisture content, drying rate and moisture ratio,                      7, 9). The optimal ANN configuration was selected
 respectively. This shows that the ability of ANN to                    after calculating the statistical parameters like mean
 predict moisture content, drying rate and moisture ratio               relative error (MAE), standard deviation of MAE
 was very good.                                                         (STDA), percentage of relative mean square error
                                                                        (%MRE) and standard deviation of %MRE (STDR).
 Conclusions                                                            Thus, ANN modeling can be successfully used for
       Empirical model namely page’s, generalized                       accurately predicting moisture content, drying rate and
 exponential and logarithmic models and Artificial                      moisture ratio.

                                           Table 5: Prediction of Drying Properties
Drying     No     No      (%)db                                dm/dt                              MR
Conditions hidden neurons
           layer                            R2                                       R        2
                                                                                                                                 R2
                          MAE STDA MRE STDR (%)                MAE      STDAMRE STDR (%) MAE STDA MRE STDR                       (%)
           1      3       1.091 0.991   18.512 0.389   99.96   14.644   0.734 30.298 0.749   74.90 0.012   0.011 28.892 0.625    99.60
           1      5       0.363 0.377   7.815 0.154    99.99   0.015    0.020 7.830 0.119    99.77 0.004   0.004 9.256   0.183   99.99
           1      7       0.418 0.407   6.053 0.121    99.98   0.050    0.193 22.660 0.515   91.99 0.007   0.013 6.895   0.136   99.90
           1      9       0.567 1.088   2.875 0.037    99.93   0.058    0.235 23.302 0.518   89.98 0.006   0.012 6.728   0.157   99.93
17, SS, 62, 2
                  3       0.869 0.583   12.756 0.168   99.96   0.030    0.081 19.991 0.423   97.49 0.009   0.007 29.824 0.602    99.93
           2      5       0.430 0.339   5.798 0.071    99.99   0.019    0.024 19.466 0.456   99.51 0.003   0.003 5.666   0.090   99.99
           2      7       1.078 0.717   21.322 0.389   99.96   0.014    0.017 19.418 0.512   99.81 0.011   0.007 3.523   0.620   99.97
           2      9       0.608 0.594   21.853 0.447   99.98   0.018    0.024 19.920 0.476   99.53 0.006   0.006 37.060 0.087    99.94

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