abstract: the combination of pulsed vacuum osmotic dehydration and microwave drying of garlic bulbs were examined. the response surface methodology (rsm) was used to determine the effect of nacl concentration (8%-20%), osmotic solution temperature (25-65°c), operation pressure (240-830 mbar), immersion time (20-300 min) and microwave power level (100-600 w) on water loss (wl), solids gain (sg),...

Background and Aim: Considering the great advances and extensive use of cell phones and its effects on the human communications and interactions, investigation of potential negative effects of cell phones on the users' health is necessary. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the distance between cell phones and brain tissue on the temperature of the central and gray matters of ...

in spite of considerable increase in the resolution of general circulation and regional models, none of these models are capable to predict and downscale the meteorological outputs in the scale of meteorological station.in this regard, different dynamical and statistical models have been developed for downscaling outputs of gcms. in this paper, grided meteorological outputs of general circulati...

One of the major industry problems is the flow boiling, where reaching to the critical heat flux (CHF) condition can lead to a temperature jump and damage of the systems. In the present study, the effects of a uniform change in tube diameter on subcooled flow boiling and CHF was numerically investigated. The Euler-Euler model was used to investigate the relationship between the two liquid and v...

zirconium dioxide, commonly known as zirconia, is an interesting material and is receiving growing attention due to its excellent mechanical properties. the solid was characterized for surface area measurements, scanningelectron microscopy (sem), energy dispersive x-ray diffractometry (edx) and potentiometric titrations. surface titrations were carried out at the temperature range 303 to 323k i...