The effect of air temperature, air velocity, and sample shapes (circle and square with the same cross-sectional area) on kinetic drying of potato slices in a tunnel dryer was investigated experimentally and a suitable drying model was developed. The experiments of drying of potato slices were conducted at an air temperature of 45-70°C with an air velocity 1.60 and 1.81 m sec(-1). Results showed...

in order to investigate the effects of peppermint (mentha piperita l.) alcoholic extract on liver injury caused by the oxidant carbon tetrachloride (ccl4), an experiment was performed as a completely randomized design in a factorial arrangement (2 × 2) with 4 replications of 10 broilers each. factors included two levels of peppermint leaf alcoholic extract (0 and 2 ml/kg body weight) and ccl4 (...

This study aimed at evaluating glycemia and lipid profile of offspring from diabetic Wistar rats treated with Mentha piperita (peppermint) juice. Male offspring from nondiabetic dams (control group: 10 animals treated with water and 10 treated with peppermint juice) and from dams with streptozotocin-induced severe diabetes (diabetic group: 10 animals treated with water and 10 treated with peppe...

Finger millet (Eluesine coracana) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica), are highly nutritious minor millets and hence is used in most of the staple foods. The present study was to estimate the thin layer drying characteristics of foxtail and finger millet and developing a thin layer model which adequately fits the data. Foxtail and finger millet with an initial moisture content of 0.314 and 0.3...

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...

Gentle in-store drying of popping corn may reduce the risk of stress fissures being generated, an effect which reduces popcorn expansion volume. In order to allow optimisation studies of in-store drying to be conducted, thermophysical properties of two current Australian popping corn varieties were measured in the range 30-50°C, at moisture contents from 12% to 20% wb. Models were developed for...

Japanese cornmint (Mentha canadensis L., synonym M. arvensis L.) is a subtropical plant with major producers India, China, Vietnam, and Brazil (Chand et al., 2004; Clark, 1998; Kumar et al., 2000; Lawrence, 2007; Singh and Saini, 2008). Th ere is no production of Japanese cornmint in the United States despite some incorrect reports (Pandey et al., 2003; Singh and Saini, 2008). Japanese cornmint...

Antibacterial activities of different forms of peppermint (Mentha piperita) viz., aqueous infusion, decoction, juice and essential oil were investigated against 100 isolates belonging to 11 different species of Gram –ve bacilli viz., Escherichia coli (30), Klebsiella pneumoniae (25), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (15), Salmonella typhi (5), S. paratyphi A (1), S. paratyphi B (1), Proteus mirabilis (10...