drying foodstuffs can have negative effects on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the products, including porosity and bulk density. therefore, novel technologies can be used to improve these characteristics. in this study, apparent density changes during drying grapes pretreated with ultrasound for 10, 20 and 30 minutes, and carboxymethyl cellulose (cmc) at three concentrations of...

the structure of fluids confined by planar walls is studied using density functional theory. the density functional used is a generalized form of the hypernetted chain (hnc) functional which contains a term third order in the density. this term is chosen to ensure that the modified density functional gives the correct bulk pressure. the proposed density functional applied to a lennard-jones flu...

abstract soil crust decreases soil infiltration and prevents plant stablishment. thus reduction of crust effects is a prominent way to avert desertification. this study was conducted to investigate the effect of polyacrylamide on emergence of canola seedlings in a crusted soil and some physicochemical properties of soil such as ph, ec, sar and bulk density in a field located in date and tropica...

Bulk density is an important process parameter for machines that transport, feed or process granular materials. Certain process variables have been shown to increase bulk density, such as the channel geometry at machines with rotational helical elements, the shape, dimensions and dimension distribution of granules, pressure, temperature, and vibration of the granular layer. The effect of the ra...

in this study, some seed physical properties of two sugar beet varieties, shirin and gadouk (436), were evaluated as a function of moisture content. physical properties included length, width, thickness, arithmetic and geometric mean diameters, sphericity, thousand seed weight, angle of repose, terminal velocity, true density, bulk density, porosity, and coefficient of friction. four moisture c...

The paper presents a concept of dynamic bulk density estimation of a particulate matter stream using a 3-d image analysis system and a conveyor belt scale. A method of image acquisition should be adjusted to the type of scale. The paper presents some laboratory results of static bulk density measurements using the MS Kinect time-of-flight camera and OpenCV/Matlab software. Measurements were mad...