Engineering, Energy, Transport AIC

Dmytro BORYSIUK – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor of the department of automobiles and transport management of Vinnytsia National Technical University (21021, Vinnytsia, Politechnichna st., 7, e-mail: bddv@ukr.net, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8572-6959).
Yuriy IVANOV – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Automation and Intellectual Information Technologies of Vinnytsia National Technical University (21021, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytske Shosse, 95, e-mail: Yura881990@i.ua, 0000-0003-2125-1004).
Vitaliy OGNEVYY – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the department of automobiles and transport management of Vinnytsia National Technical University (21021, Vinnytsia, Politechnichna st., 7, e-mail: bddv@ukr.net, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8334-6709).
Igor TVERDOKHLIB – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the department of general technical disciplines and occupational safety, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University (21008, Vinniytsia, st. Sonyachna 3, VNAU, 21008, e-mail: igor_tverdokhlib@yahoo.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1350-3232).

Most agricultural materials contain a significant amount of water, which is part of plant tissues and is their necessary component. However, excess water reduces the nutritional value of agricultural materials, increases storage and transportation costs, and can cause spoilage due to the activity of various microorganisms. Every year, Ukraine harvests a significant harvest of vegetables, fruits, and berries. But no more than 65% of the grown crop reaches the consumer. For long-term preservation of fruit and vegetable raw materials and other agricultural materials, special processing is necessary to prevent their spoilage. One type of such processing is drying.
Preserving products by drying is one of the methods known since ancient times. There are many agricultural products in which drying occurs spontaneously in nature. In modern conditions, mechanization and intensive use of energy in the food and agricultural industries are also applied to drying processes. In the shortest terms, the drying process can be defined as the removal of water from solids.
An analysis of methods and means of drying of agricultural materials and their classification for further implementation in practice of the most energy-efficient drying method is carried out in this article. The analysis of existing methods and means of drying of agricultural materials made it possible to identify the shortcomings of the drying process, which in the future will allow developing promising ways of improved drying technology.
Considering that the development of technical solutions aimed at intensification and energy saving of the drying technological process is an urgent scientific and technical task of the agro-industrial production sector in Ukraine, based on the generalization of literature data, the co-authors of the article developed two ways to intensify the drying process of agricultural materials: improving the means of drying of agricultural materials and improving the methods of drying of agricultural materials.

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