This study was to evaluate the feasibility of recycling the solids separated from swine wastewater treatment process as a fuel source for heat production and to provide a data set on the gas emissions and combustion properties. Also, in this study, the heavy metals in ash content were analyzed for its possible use as a fertilizer. Proximate analysis of the solid recovered from the swine wastewa...

We have studied the internal friction of amorphous diamond-like carbon films prepared by pulsed-laser deposition from 0.4 to 300K. The low temperature internal friction below 10K is dominated by the atomic tunnelling states for amorphous solids, which is a measure of structure disorder. We have tried to vary the content of sp carbon atoms versus sp ones by changing laser fleunce, by doping with...

Fruitghurt is a product of fermented fruit juice using Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophillus bacteria. This research was conducted developing fruitghurt products that contain vitamin C with combination red guava pineapple juice. The method carried out factorial completely randomized design which consisted two factors. Factor I: juice: JN1=120%:80%; JN2=130%:70%, JN3=140%:60%,...

various destructive and non-destructive methods are used to measure the maturity and internal quality parameters of fruits. destructive methods often consume time and are costly. in this study, the ability of near infrared spectroscopy for prediction of the quality properties such as soluble solids content, titratable acid, ph, total phenol and extract anthocyanin of 'bidaneh ghermez'...

Abstract The temperature difference of fruit itself will affect its near infrared spectrum and the accuracy soluble solids content (SSC) prediction model. To eliminate influence apple on SSC model, a diffuse transmission dynamic online detection device was used to collect spectral data apples at different temperatures, four methods were establish partial least squares correction models: global ...

The actions of nutrients on gut transit of liquids and solids have been extensively studied, but the effects of meal ingestion on intestinal gas flow are unexplored. We hypothesized that meals of varying caloric content and consistency modulate gas transit to different degrees. Nine healthy volunteers underwent jejunal perfusion of physiological gas mixtures at 12 ml.min(-1).3 h, with ingestion...

Multispectral imaging with 19 wavelengths in the range of 405-970 nm has been evaluated for nondestructive determination of firmness, total soluble solids (TSS) content and ripeness stage in strawberry fruit. Several analysis approaches, including partial least squares (PLS), support vector machine (SVM) and back propagation neural network (BPNN), were applied to develop theoretical models for ...