The objective of this study was to determine experimentally the values of bulk density and porosity for grains of the Carioquinha and Jalo varieties of bean and to adjust mathematical equations to the experimental data, as a function of level and size of impurities in the product mass. The results obtained in this work point to the conclusion that the increase of the level of impurities smaller than the grains increased the bulk density and reduced the porosity, and that the increase of the level of larger impurities than the grains reduced the bulk density and increased the porosity of the granular product for both the varieties. The values of bulk density and porosity of the mass of bean grains differed among the analyzed varieties, the values of the bulk density of the variety Carioquinha being superior, while the porosity value was found to be inferior to that observed for the variety Jalo, for moisture content of 12% wet base.
bean; impurity; bulk density; porosity
