in this study, a single layer sliced potato was dried using an infrared lamp heating under vacuum over three levels of radiant power including 100, 150 and 200 w, three slices thickness 1, 2 and 3 mm and the absolute pressure of 20, 80, 140 and 760 mmhg. samples were dried in triplicate to achieve 6% moisture content (wet based) which is suitable for long-term storage. drying rate was monitored...

An experimental setup is designed to detect composite delamination damage based on ultrasonic infrared thermography. The ultrasonic infrared thermography system is composed by ultrasonic excitation system, infrared thermal imager and data acquisition system and two damaged composite plate specimens are produced in the experiment. The image processing methods including thresholding, filters, edg...

This work describes the implementation and the modeling of an infrared gas sensor with pulse delta-sigma sensing architecture. Beyond the conventional technique of constant periodic heating of infrared light source, our proposed delta-sigma architecture with closed-loop feedback system is built with the hybrid combination of a CO2 infrared sensor with a specific wavelength filter, an infrared M...

The insect exoskeleton is a multifunctional coat with a continuum of mechanical and structural properties constituting the barrier between electromagnetic waves and the internal body parts. This paper examines the ability of beetle exoskeleton to regulate internal body temperature considering its thermal permeability or isolation to simulated solar irradiance and infrared radiation. Seven Neotr...

A novel measurement technique, based on infrared thermography, has been applied for characterizing the thermal properties of paper with high spatial resolution. The technique is termed as ‘active thermography’ since the temperature response of a paper sheet is observed and analyzed with respect to an external periodic heating. Through the analysis of the temperature response of the paper surfac...

Counterpropagating (upstream) chiral neutral edge modes, which were predicted to be present in hole-conjugate states, were observed recently in a variety of fractional quantum Hall states (ν=2/3, ν=3/5, ν=8/3, and ν=5/2), by measuring the charge noise that resulted after partitioning the neutral mode by a constriction (denoted, as N→C). Particularly noticeable was the observation of such modes ...

This paper is about the development, uses and advantages of infrared thermography. Its principles had already been used by old civilizations as a manner of diseases diagnosis. The discovery of the infrared waves and its heating power happened on 1800, but its use in modern Medicine as a diagnosis method was only possible because of the scientific and technological development demanded by the Gr...

Monodisperse copper-iron-sulfide (CuFeS2) nanoparticles as the infrared light absorbing material (chalcopyrite, 0.65 eV), were synthesized based on facile, one step heating up method, by dissolving of CuCl, FeCl3 and SC(NH2)2 as precursors in oleylamine (OLA) alone or in combination with oleic acid (OA) and 1-octadecene (ODE) as solvent. The phase, size, morphology, and size distribution were c...