onychomycosis constitutes the most common fungal infection of nail affecting finger and toe nails as well. antifungals found to be effective in the treatment of onychomycosis. however, transport of oral antifungal agents exhibits more toxicity and requires longer treatment period. medicated nail lacquers proved to cause lesser toxicity and required shorter treatment period. it provides not only...

A chart relating temperature and velocity to the drying time of single layered shredded breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis, is presented. Breadfruit, which can be dried and ground into gluten-free flour, was placed on screens in a controlled drying chamber. A design of experiment based on the independent variables of temperature (21, 40, 55°C), absolute humidity (0.01, 0.01125, 0.0125 kg/kg dry air...

Craterostigma wilmsii Engl. (homoiochlorophyllous) is a resurrection species that is thought to rely primarily on the protection of cellular components during drying to survive desiccation. The time taken for this protection to be instituted is thought to preclude recovery after rapid drying. Thus the response of C. wilmsii plants to rapid dehydration was investigated. The effect of rapid dryin...

Drying of Matricaria recutita flower was investigated experimentally in a VibroFluidized Bed Dryer (VFBD). The aim of the present work was to optimize the best operating conditions for the drying of Matricaria recutita flower in the VFBD based on experimental design techniques. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Central Composite Design (CCD) based on 4-variable with 5-level have been e...

At equilibrium, colloidal particles in a subcritical liquid suspension are surrounded by a drying layer if the colloid has solvophobic interaction. Using Brownian dynamics computer simulations, we investigate the nonequilibrium response of this layer to a strong external driving force. We find that the driven colloidal particle dresses itself with more particles than in the equilibrium drying l...

The ability of some microorganisms to survive a stress treatment such as freeze drying has been shown to improve when aging the cells is done before drying. Hutton and Shirey (1951) described the beneficial effects of adding filtrates from aged cultures to cell paste of Brucella abortus before freeze drying. Record and Taylor (1953) showed that an exudate of Escherichia coli offered protection ...

In this study, air-drying experiments in thin layers of mulberry grown in Istanbul, Turkey, were conducted. The effect of ethyl oleate solution on drying time of mulberry samples was investigated in a pilot air-dryer. When ethyl oleate was used as pretreatment solution, the drying time of samples was decreased. Drying curves were obtained using the Page model. The effective diffusivity varied f...

due to problems in storage, transport and price fluctuation of fresh potato, production of ready-to-use products like french fries is of particular importance.one of the important steps in product processing is pre-drying.sticks with 0.8*0.8*8 cm dimensions were prepared, blanched with hot water at 75°c for 10 minutes and dried at four different air temperatures of 50, 60, 70 and 80°c to moistu...

The conventional methods of drying Chinese wolfberry fruits cause loss of active ingredients and the drying time is very long. In order to explore and investigate the new method of drying Chinese wolfberry fruits, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) drying system was used to drying for Chinese wolfberry fruits with a multiple needle-to-plate electrode on five levels alternating voltage at 0, 20, 24, 28 a...

We systematically investigated the thermal effects of drying process as well as thermal annealing on morphology and performance of inverted polymer solar cells (PSCs) fabricated by roll-to-roll (R2R) slotdie coating. Power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PSCs layer is strongly influenced by bulk heterojunction (BHJ) active layer. Compared to the conventional annealing process, we demonstrate tha...