During the floristic research in Emirate of Fujairah United Arab Emirates (UAE) 2017–2022, we made new findings that complement species composition flora vascular plants territory and UAE as a whole. The article provides data on 17 ergasiophygophytes – cultivated running wild plant species, alien to Fujairah: Pseuderanthemum maculatum (G. Lodd.) I.M. Turner var. atropurpurem (W. Bull) V.V. Byal...

This paper aimed to design an autonomous indirect solar dryer, which can dehydrate the aguaymanto in a costeffective manner, yielding quality product suitable for export from central part highland of Peru. To complete this task, it was proposed prototype dryer 100 kg per batch aguaymanto, equipped with flat reflectors and forced air feed, powered photovoltaic energy. system allows dry fruit at ...

Adsorption and desorption isotherms of fresh and dried Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L.) were determined at three temperatures (20, 40 and 60 °C) using a gravimetric technique. The data obtained were fitted to several models including Guggenheim-Anderson-De Boer (GAB), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), Henderson, Caurie, Smith, Oswin, Halsey and Iglesias-Chirife. A non-linear least square reg...

Drying kinetics of Cape gooseberry was studied and modeled during processing at four temperatures (60, 70, 80 and 90C). Desorption isotherm was obtained at 40C giving a monolayer moisture content of 0.086 g water/g d.m. Experimental drying curves showed that drying process took place only in the falling rate period. Several thin-layer drying models available in the literature were evaluated bas...

This study aimed to evaluate the renoprotective effect of Physalis peruviana L. extract (PPE) on acute renal injury in rats. Adult male rats (n = 36) were divided into six groups that were fed with basal diet throughout the experiment (33 days). The first group was normal group, the second and the third groups were administered orally with 100 and 150 mg PPE/kg body weight (BW) respectively, th...