dehydration, as one of the practical ways to increase the shelf-life and applicability of yoghurt in various foodstuffs, is normally done by freeze drier (fd) which is an expensive and time-consuming process. for these reasons, in the present study the capability of microwave–vacuum drier (mvd), as an alternative process, was investigated. for doing so, the fat free yoghurt samples of 2.2, 4.2 ...

drying characteristics of green pea (pisum satium) with an initial moisture content of 76% (db) was studied in a fluidized bed dryer assisted by microwave heating. four drying air temperatures (30, 40, 50 and 60ºc) and five microwave powers (180, 360, 540, 720 and 900w) were adopted. several experiments were conducted to obtain data for sample moisture content versus drying time. the results sh...

Abstract The recombination of neutral oxygen atoms in the ground state on oxidized nickel samples was studied experimentally range pressures where maximum density occurs weakly ionized lowpressure plasma, i.e., between 40 and 200 Pa. coefficient determined flowing afterglow. source plasma sustained a quartz tube inner diameter 4.7 mm by microwave discharge surfatron mode. afterglow chamber, whi...

The following study demonstrates the possibility of producing different activated carbons from a mixture of waste tires and tubes. The mixture was pyrolyzed at different temperatures namely (400,450 and 500 о C) for two hours for the determination of best condition of heating. It was found through the study that semi carbonized marital produced via pyrolyis at 500 о C was the best; thus it was ...

[1] A technique to estimate the uncertainties of the parameters of a neural network model, i.e., the synaptic weights, was described in the work of Aires [2004]. Using these weight uncertainty estimates, we compute the uncertainties in the network outputs (i.e., error bars and correlation structure of these errors). Such quantities are very important for evaluating any application of the neural...

a method to quick detect concentration of lecithin in eggs, namely microwave digestion spectrophotometry, was established in this research. the homogenate of eggs was treated with absolute ethanol to eliminate phosphate protein in eggs which could possibly affect concentration of lecithin examined. a sample then received a new way of pre-treatment, called microwave digestion, before uv-vis spec...

secondary clarifiers with large areas are widely applied in wastewater treatment plants. a pilot study was conducted to examine the possibility of applying one and two-stage inclined tube settlers instead of conventional secondary clarifiers. tube diameter in the first stage of the two-stage settler was wide as the conventional ones, but in the second stage, it was narrow to improve the efficie...

The microwave absorbing characteristics of magnetic separation products (magnetic and non-magnetic) of reductive products of ilmenite concentrate were measured by the method of microwave cavity perturbation and the magnetic separation products were characterized by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). It was demonstrated that metallic iron was a strong microwave absorbing material, while TiO2 was a weak mi...

Introduction: Recent increase of endocrine disorders may be correlated to the increased exposure to electromagnetic fields from various instruments. Radiation leakage from microwave oven may be harmful for users. Ladies have the highest levels of contact with microwave ovens. This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of radiation leakage from microwave oven on body weight, cortisol a...