Dates are considered high energy nutritional fruits as they packed with plenty of minerals, vitamins and sugars. Among various options available for processing value addition, dry dates one the best possible alternatives to convert doka/khalal stage fruit into a product. However, technology their production is limited few traditional date growing countries research in expanding areas. Thus, pro...

orange (citrus cinensis) is one of the most important among citrus fruits. the thin layer drying kinetics of orange (thompson variety) slice was here experimentally investigated in a convective dryer and through mathematical modeling and by use of thin layer drying models. drying characteristics of oranges were determined using heated ambient air at temperatures from 40 to 80 °c and velocities ...

In the present study, the application of a BP neural network for prediction of the moisture content of barberry fruit (berberis vulgaris) during drying was investigated. The important parameters namely, pretreatment (heat shocking, olive oil + K2CO3 and NAT), air drying temperature (60, 70 and 80oC), air drying velocity (0.3, 0.5 and 1 m/s) and time (s) were considered as the input parameters a...

drying characteristics of quercus were determined experimentally as a function of temperature, air velocity, and variety (quercus persica and quercus libani). in order to estimate and select a suitable drying curve, five different thin layer drying models were fitted to the experimental data. experiments were performed at the air temperatures of 50, 60 and 70°c. at each temperature level, two a...

This work aimed to discuss effects of pulsed vacuum drying (PVD) at different temperatures (45°C, 50°C, 55°C and 60°C), durations (5 min, 10 min 15 min) multi-stage heating on kinetics, colour attributes, phenolic compounds antioxidant capacity chrysanthemum (Imperial chrysanthemum). Results indicated that successive temperature increase reduced the time enhanced rate moisture diffusivity. Lowe...

Leather manufacturing involves a crucial energy-intensive drying stage in the finishing process to remove its residual moisture. Determining drying characteristics of leather is vitally important so as to optimize the drying stage. This paper describes an analytical way for determination of the drying characteristics of leather. The model presented, is based on fundamental heat and mass tra...

Background: Drying is the one of the oldest methods for increasing the shelf life of food products. The objective of the present study was evaluation of effect of different drying temperatures on drying time and storage quality parameters of in-shell hazelnut. Methods: Hazelnuts were dried as a thin layer at three temperatures (40, 50, and 60 °C). The time required for drying and quality param...

Non-uniform stresses, strains and microcracking of the concretes with three coarse aggregate sizes (5–10 mm, 10–16 16–20 mm) dried under 40% relative humidity (RH) for 60 days were quantified using digital image correlation lattice fracture modelling. The influencing mechanism size on drying-induced concrete was clarified: (1) As decreases, propagation paths are increased, which increase number...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of Campomanesia adamantium seeds to desiccation by drying in activated silica gel (fast) and under laboratory conditions (slow). To assess the sensitivity of the seeds to desiccation, we used drying with silica gel and drying under laboratory conditions (25 °C), in order to obtain seeds with moisture content of 45, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and...