A small salt gradient solar pond with an average surface area of 1.8 m2 and depth of 0.8m has been tested. The depths of storage, gradient and surface zones are 0.3, 0.27 and 0.07m, respectively. The temperature of the storage zone for the summer days reaches its maximum of 65˚ C after about 8 days. Daily variation of the storage zone temperature was about 8˚C which is due to small volume of th...

research was carried out in 2007 on 7 native summer-ripening apple cultivars grown in kamal abad karaj research station. the 16 year-old plants were grafted onto seed rootstocks. the cultivars were ghandak-e-kashan, golab-e-isfahan, golab-e-kohanz, mashad, assali, ghermez-e-rezaieh and a new cultivar--koli-e-mahallat (syn. escr). the aim of the study was to identify changes in qualitative and q...

in this paper, the effect of cationic and anionic ion sizes on the charge storage capability of graphene nanosheets is investigated. the electrochemical properties of the produced electrode are studied using cyclic voltammetry (cv) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) techniques in 3m nacl, naoh, and koh electrolytes. scanning electron microscopy (sem) is used to characterize the mi...

seed–storage proteins are important reservoirs of food and energy which are also involved in the determination of bread making quality. solubility properties of these proteins are traditionally classified into four classes: albumin, globulin, prolamin and glutelin. gliadin and glutenin have also been studied extensively and the genetics and biochemistry are relatively well known. grain proteins...

two batches of frankfurters containing about 55% chicken meat with two different oils (including canola and soybean) were manufactured. batch 1 included canola oil and batch 2 included soybean oil in the products. various analyses were performed to detect the lipid changes of both batches during storage. fatty acid composition analysis using gas chromatography showed little change in the fatty ...

in this study, the effectiveness of chitosan coating treatment to control weight loss and maintaining fruit quality of apricot was investigated. fruits were coated with 0.25%, 0.5% and 0.75% chitosan as well as distilled water (control). following treatments, fruits were stored at 0?c and 80 ? 2% relative humidity for 25 days. the weight loss, total soluble solids (tss), titratable acidity (ta)...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the probable effects of the vitamin e addition in different levels to the extender of chicken semen on spermatozoa quality during storage of semen at 4°c for 0, 3, 6, 10 and 24 hours. eight young ross broiler breeder strain 308 roosters were used in this experiment. the collected semen from all roosters was mixed together and diluted with modified a rin...

seed protein quality is an important topic in the production of soybean. the quality of soybean proteins is limited by anti-nutrient proteins and low levels of essential sulfur amino acids. in this study, protein content and solubility of six cultivars were evaluated and seed storage proteins were analyzed using sds-page and scanning densitometry. the results showed that seed storage protein ba...

apricot is climacteric and its ripening process is regulated by ethylene, therefore, inhibiting ethylene biosynthesis or action should slow the ripening process. this study was conducted to decrease materials losses and increase storage life of fruit by proper packaging. different packaging (polyethylene film, polyethylene film with ethylene absorbent, shrink pack and control) were used. after ...