Studies on methods for fixing foods (with a slight loss of bioactive compounds) and obtaining attractive products are important with respect to current technology. The drying process allows for a product with highly bioactive properties. Drying of Physalis fruit was carried out in a conventional manner, and in a microwave under reduced pressure at 120 W and 480 W. After drying, the fruits were ...

The highly nonlinear characteristics of drying processes have prompted researchers to seek new nonlinear control solutions. However, the relation between the implementation complexity, on-line processing complexity, reliability control structure and controller’s performance is not well established. The present paper proposes high performance nonlinear fuzzy controllers for a real-time operation...

Although it is understood that the chemical environment at a drying surface is likely to be quite different from that at a fully hydrated surface, the difficulty of quantitative measurement has meant that this potentially crucial aspect of surface chemistry has gone largely overlooked. As a result, most of our understanding comes from measurement before and after drying, with a gray region of s...

A model for the simulation of timber drying in a batch kiln has been used for the investigation of a set of different questions related to this drying process. The model is global in the sense that it takes into account that the drying air local climate changes as it passes through the kiln load. In Scandinavian, practice kiln stacks are normally built from boards of random lengths so that ever...

WHEN the collection of faeces during a metabolic experiment extends over a considerable period of time, difficulties arise in the determination of the total nitrogen and sulphur contents. Sampling of the wet composite specimen is generally unsatisfactory and ordinary methods of drying on a steam-bath result in a considerable loss of both nitrogen (as ammonia) and sulphur (mainly as sulphide). I...

Ł. Jamrozowicz, J. Zych, J. Kolczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Kraków, Poland Investigation results of the drying rate of the selected protective coatings (water and alcohol) are presented in the article. Coating drying rate was determined for the first and second layers. The coating was applied to moulding sand cores. The rate of drying coatings ...

The effect of the drying method applied and subsequent rapeseed storage on changes in phytosterols was determined. After harvest, rapeseeds were dried by the near-ambient method in a thick immobile layer of 2 m and using air heated to a temperature of 60, 80 and 100 °C. Analyses of phytosterol contents were performed immediately after drying and after 6 and 12 months of storage at a temperature...

Since Shackell (1909) described the preservation of biological material by freeze-drying, or drying by sublimation of ice, other workers have improved the process until, at the present time, it is used to preserve a variety of biological products. Flosdorf (1949) has reviewed the course of this development. A few of the workers in the field have published the results of attempts to use this tec...

In this study, the antibacterial effect was evaluated to determine the benefits of high speed drying (HSD) and far-infrared radiation drying (FIR) compared to the freeze drying (FD) method. Citrus press-cakes (CPCs) are released as a by-product in the citrus processing industry. Previous studies have shown that the HSD and FIR drying methods are much more economical for drying time and mass dry...

Drying experiments have been carried out with model soils made of different pastes filling granular packings. A detailed information concerning the time evolution of the water saturation distribution inside the sample was obtained from magnetic resonance imaging measurements. This study makes it possible to understand the physical origin of the drying characteristics of these materials. The dry...