The hot air convective drying characteristics of scallop adductor were investigated.The pretreated samples were dried at 45, 55, 65 and 75 ℃, and weighed in a 15 min interval in the first hour, in a 30 min interval in second hour, and in a 60 min interval thereafter at falling speed.Five thin layer drying models including Henderson-Pabis, Wang and Singh, Diamante et al., Page and Newton were established based on the experimental data for the test model by correlation coefficient(R),decision coefficient(R2),average deviation(eave), Chi-square test(χ2),root-mean-square error(RMSE)and lelative average deviation(P)in order to screen a suitable drying curve.It was found that four models(Henderson-Pabis, Diamante et al., Page and Newton)were proved to be effective.Furthermore, the effects of temperature on model constants of the four models were analyzed, and the three general models(Henderson-Pabis, Page, and Newton)including drying temperature as variable were effectively used to predict the drying process effectively in the drying temperature range from 45℃ to 75℃.The models were expressed as MRH=0.9673exp[-(7×10-5T-0.0009)]t, MRP=exp(-0.00323t0.0039T+0.7727)and MRN=exp[-(7×10-5T-0.0008)]t.