3D simulation on convective drying process for cylindrical tea particle using CFD software to analyze the heat and mass transfer phenomena

. One of the tea processing that affects the quality of tea is the drying process. The tea drying process was simulated using CFD software to get temperature distribution of tea also determine the optimal value of velocity and temperature inlet. The tea drying simulation is carried out on cylindrical tea, which has a size of D = 3.5 mm and p = 14 mm by placing tea material on the computational domain of external flow. Tea Drying Simulation uses inlet velocity and inlet temperature variations. Variations in velocity used are 2.5 m/s, 3.5 m/s, and 4.5 m/s, while the temperature variations used are 87°C, 92°C, and 97°C. The flow model used is laminar flow. The results showed to achieve the condition of moisture content of tea particles to 5% (1.5 g) the fastest drying time occurs at velocity of 4.5 m/s with the temperature of 97°C is about 348 seconds, while the slowest drying time occurs at velocity 2.5 m/s with an inlet temperature of 87°C is around 652 seconds.