Mercury Levels Lower in Great Lakes, but Still High Although mercury concentrations have decreased about 20% in fish, fish-eating birds, and inland lake sediments across the Great Lakes region in recent decades, levels in top predator fish and wildlife are still dangerously high, and in some places concentrations in some fish and wildlife may now be increasing, according to a new report. Levels...

Waste tires, rubbers, plastic and steel materials, normally produced in every society, enter the environment and cause serious problems. These problems may, to some extent, be reduced by finding applications for them in engineering, for example, they can be used for geotechnical applications as backfill material and solving problems with low shear strength soils. Such materials may be subjected...

The current study aims to determine the performance of a rack-type solar dryer. dryer uses heat absorber in form large wave plate and small which is placed collector room. dried material cassava. system used natural air flow due density differences. research was carried out by making two collectors, difference being used, one other wave. test simultaneously between dryers. In this study, result...

background black pepper (piper nigrum) is one of the well-known spices extensively used worldwide especially in india, and southeast asia. the presence of alkaloids in the pepper, namely, piperine and its three stereoisomers, isopiperine, chavicine and isochavicine are well noticed. objectives the current study evaluated the effect of lyophilization and oven drying on the stability and decompos...

A numerical investigation of a solar greenhouse tunnel drier (SGTD) has been performed. In the present study, the geometry of the tunnel roof is assumed semi-circular which is covered with a UV (200μ) stabilized polyethylene film. The simulated SGTD reduces moisture of copra from 52.2% to 8% in 55 h under full load conditions. A system of partial differential equations describing heat and moist...

A study was conducted using LabPlant SD-06 Spray Dryer to produce spray-dried rosellepineapple powder. Roselle calyces and pineapples were extracted under optimum condition. Three different maltodextrin DE 10 concentrations (3%, 5% and 10%) were added (w/w) as the encapsulating agent prior to spray drying. Inlet temperatures were varied at 140 C, 160 C and 180 C respectively and the outlet temp...

many research studies have been performed on forced convection (active) solar dryers for fruit and vegetables. a short survey of these showed that applying the forced convection solar dryer not only significantly reduced the drying time but also resulted in many improvements in the quality of the dried products. active indirect and mixed-mode thin layer solar drying experiments were conducted o...

the canola drying process was investigated using three laboratory scale dryers connected to a computer which continuously recorded the drying processes of each unit. a completely randomized design (crd) with three replications was used for the statistical analysis. the effect of temperature (40°, 50°, 60°c) and air velocity (1, 2 m/s) on the drying kinetics of a monolayer were studied. the effe...