in order to investigate the effect of temperature and time of blanching process on the generation and extraction of reducing sugars and kinetics of color changes during blanching, the potato strips packaged in the polyethylene (hdpe with 10 micron thickness) film or without polyethylene packaging, were immersed in distilled water at temperature range of 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 ºc for 120 minutes....

Composite panels using virgin and recycled high-density polyethylene (VHDPE and RHDPE) and five types of natural fibers including four rice straw components (i.e., rice husk, rice straw leaf, rice straw stem, and whole rice straw) and wood fiber as control were made by melt compounding and compression molding. Fiber characteristics and the influences of fiber type and loading rate on HDPE cryst...

Individual sealing and tray wrap of orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck cv. ‘Valencia’) with heat-shrinkable films of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) were held for a period up to 4 months at 5°C and 85-90% RH. Both methods of film-packaging showed little change in the water relations characteristics, wh...

hdpe monofilaments were obtained using different extruders and drawn by post-extruder equipments. after solidification, drawn and undrawn monofilaments (draw ratio 7:1) were irradiated with 10 mev electron beams in air at room temperature at 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125 kgy dose ranges to induce a network structure. hdpe crosslinking was studied on the basis of gel content measurements. the fibers w...

Aiming to develop more robust, mechanically advanced, Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) materials, High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) nanocomposites were developed in the current research work. Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) was selected as filler be incorporated into HDPE matrix concentration steps of 0.5, 2.5, 5, and 10 wt.%. 3D printing nanocomposite filaments extruded ~1.75 mm diameter used print tes...

Innovative ways of avoiding heavy plastic deposits all over the world must be designed and implemented via recycling post-used materials by reusing them as new products with better mechanical properties. As a result continuous use different materials, influencing effects on environment economic issues had been problem confronting post-consumer such materials. High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) po...

The effect of blending a small amount high-density polyethylene (HDPE) on molecular entanglements during melt-drawing ultrahigh-molecular-weight (UHMW-PE) was investigated in this study. UHMW-PE powders with HDPE added and bimodal MW distribution were synthesized by reactor blending. In situ wide-angle X-ray diffraction small-angle scattering measurements UHMW-PE/HDPE films performed to evaluat...

Drinking water biofilm formation on polyvinyl chloride (PVC), cross-linked polyethylene (PEX), high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) was followed in three different reactors operating under stagnant or continuous flow regimes. After one week, a quasi-steady state was achieved where biofilm total cell numbers per unit surface area were not affected by fluctuations in the concen...

We used a rat model in vivo to study the effects of the concentration of polyethylene particles on the bone-implant interface around stable implants in the proximal tibia. Intra-articular injections of 10(4), 10(6) or 10(8) high-density polyethylene (HDPE) particles per joint were given 8, 10 and 12 weeks after surgery. The animals were killed after 14 and 26 weeks and the response at the inter...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of infrared tympanic temperature (IR T(ty)) as a thermal index to evaluate the heat strain of workers in hot environments, in comparison with rectal temperatures at various depths (T(re-4, -8, and -16) for 4, 8 and 16 cm from the anal sphincter). Eight males underwent twelve experimental conditions: two activities (rest and exercise) × t...