Wettability alteration has been a sophisticated issue for scientists and reservoir engineers since early 20th century; thus, many investigations have been carried out to determine wettability and enhance it to ideal conditions, which leads to improvement in oil recovery. Dilute surfactant flooding has been approved as one of the noteworthy methods in chemical flooding. Several petroleum reservo...

In our work we focused on the investigation of two intensive drying methods, i.e. infrared (IR) and microwave (MW) drying, for dairy sludge. During the experiments the effects of IR and MW drying with different power intensities on drying characteristic and biodegradability were examined. Our results has revealed that MW drying was more advantageous for dairy sludge, because the drying time nee...

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) provides efficient and reliable flooding of information to its peers; however, the current flooding scopes are limited to either area scope or domain scope. There are existing use cases where support of other flooding scopes is desirable. This document defines new Protocol Data Units (PDUs) that provide support for new flooding scopes as well a...

An algorithm for constrained flooding based on negative selection is proposed due to improve delay of flooding and quality of operation when the network transmit the fault information. According to the network environment different demand between delay of flooding and quality of operation, cost function of flooding delay and operation losing are set, the optimizing objective function synthesize...

The foam mat drying is a good way of dehydrating liquids foods in short times. Due to the porous structure of the foamed materials, mass transfer is enhanced leading to shorter dehydration times. This technique can be successfully employed for drying a variety of fruit juice concentration and pulps. The dried powders have good reconstitution characteristics. These studies are particularly appli...

Abstract—There was a scenario present day that drying of fresh fruits and vegetables by indirect solar drying by using mechanical device; hence, an effort was made to develop a small scale solar tunnel dryer (STD). Drying of spinach is carried out to analyze the performance of the dryer and to study its drying characteristics. To evaluate the performance of dryer the independent variables were ...

Two varieties of grapes, white grape and red grape grown in the Campania region of Italy were selected for the study of drying characteristics. Comparisons were made with treated and untreated grapes under constant drying condition of 50 C in a conventional drying system. This temperature was selected to represent farm drying conditions. Grapes were purchased from a local market from the same s...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Nicaraguan teosinte (Zea nicaraguensis), a species found in frequently flooded areas, provides useful germplasm for breeding flooding-tolerant maize (Z. mays subsp. mays). The objective of this study was to select flooding-tolerant lines using a library of introgression lines (ILs), each containing a chromosome segment from Z. nicaraguensis in the maize inbred line Mi29. M...

Three different drying methods, microwave spouted bed drying (MSBD), microwave-vacuum drying (MVD), and hot air drying (AD), were used to dry diced sweet potato. The drying characteristics and product quality are discussed in terms of the drying kinetics, rehydration ratio, expansion ratio, breaking force (crispness), product colour, and retention of β-Carotene. As expected the drying rates in ...

Impregnating wood, assisted with ultrasound technology, could improve the impregnation efficiency by improving the permeability of wood, thus affecting the subsequent drying process. Poplar lumber and phenolic resin were applied to investigate the influence of ultrasound-assisted impregnation on the wood drying process. The ultrasonic frequency and processing time were analyzed and correlated. ...