The paint shop is the most energy-intensive process in an automotive manufacturing plant, with air management systems that supply to booths consuming energy. These are crucial for temperature and humidity control, which they ensure quality of final product by preventing defects thus avoid additional cost reworking. This especially true water-based paints, evaporation film formation processes in...

At harvest sunflower seeds (Helianthus annuus L.) are dormant and poorly germinate at 10 25 °C. Seed sensitivity to low temperatures (10 °C) results from an embryo dormancy whereas the envelopes (pericarp seed coats) inhibit germination Removal of pericarp greatly improved when whole achenes was higher than critical value 20 %. Using 107 batches corresponding 26 genotypes cultivated in 2015, 20...

Seeds of mung bean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek) are subject to loss viability due aging and damage from pulse beetles (or bruchids; Callosobruchus spp.) infestation during storage. We investigated whether seed drying using desiccants hermetic packaging would prevent or ameliorate these consequences Sun-dried seeds at a moisture content 10% were subjected further for 72 h five different desic...

In this paper we developed an analytical solution for a mathematical model of an air dehumidification process. This solution has good accuracy when compared with reliable experimental data available in the literature. The present study was confined to the cases with the mass flow rate of desiccant solution being much greater than the minimum required by the equilibrium calculation, so that the ...