Conservation of agricultural crops and minimization of grain losses is challenging issue in the present scenario. Effective use of thermal energy for drying of paddy and other cereals for maintaining proper quality is the quality drying process. Natural convection grain dryer is quite suitable for under developed and developing countries like India where rural electrification and advanced dryin...

Valorisation of fruit and vegetable wastes by transforming residues discards into functional powdered ingredients has gained interest in recent years. Moreover, fermentation been recalled as an ancient technology available to increase the nutritional value foods. In present work, impact pretreatments (disruption fermentation) on drying kinetics properties broccoli stems was studied. Broccoli fe...

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of pre-treatments (0.1%KMS, 0.2%KMS, 0.3%KMS and blanching) and drying methods (mechanical drying and solar drying) on the dehydration and rehydration characteristics of carrot. The two drying methods yielded dehydrated products with different dehydration ratio, rehydration ratio, co-efficient of reconstitution and moisture content in both the dehy...

Background: Drying is the most common way to preserve quality of aromatic and medicinal plants. Chosen drying methods can affect on the essential oil content and composition of medicinal plants. Objective: This study aimed to assess the changes in essential oil constitutes of catnip aerial part under various drying methods. Methods: The experiment was performed as the randomized complete ...

Assessing the uncertainties and understanding the deficiencies of climate models are fundamental to developing adaptation strategies. The objective of this study is to understand how well Coupled Model Intercomparison-Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate model simulations replicate ground-based observations of continental drought areas and their trends. The CMIP5 multimodel ensemble encompasses the Climatic...

The spatial patterns, time history, and seasonality of African rainfall trends since 1950 are found to be deducible from the atmosphere’s response to the known variations of global sea surface temperatures (SSTs). The robustness of the oceanic impact is confirmed through the diagnosis of 80 separate 50-yr climate simulations across a suite of atmospheric general circulation models. Drying over ...

In the present study, the application of a BP neural network for prediction of the moisture content of barberry fruit (berberis vulgaris) during drying was investigated. The important parameters namely, pretreatment (heat shocking, olive oil + K2CO3 and NAT), air drying temperature (60, 70 and 80oC), air drying velocity (0.3, 0.5 and 1 m/s) and time (s) were considered as the input parameters a...

*Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected] **This work was financial supported from China 863 HI-TECH R and D Program (No. 2011AA100802), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61271384 and 1275155), the 111 Project (B12018) and PAPD of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions and sponsored by Qing Lan Project, 2014-2016. A b s t r a c t. Moisture content uniformity is one ...