To explore the collapse of eucalyptus wood cells during the drying process, continuous and intermittent drying were carried out on Eucalyptus urophylla. The shrinkage throughout the intermittent drying process was less than that of continuous drying. According to observations of cells made using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), there was a large difference in the degree of cell collapse betw...

A novel x-axis tuning fork MEMS gyroscope with “8 vertical springs-proofmass” structure for Coriolis effect detection is presented. Compared with the common single-plane springs, the 8 vertical springs, symmetrically located at the top and bottom sides, more stably suspend the large thick proofmass featuring large capacitance variation and low mechanical noise. A bulkmicromachining technology i...

Characteristics of microwave drying of wood strands with different initial moisture contents and geometries were investigated using a commercial 10 small microwave oven under different power inputs. Temperature and moisture changes along with the drying efficiency were examined at different drying scenar­ ios. Extractives were analyzed using gas chromatography=mass spectrometry (GC=MS). The res...

The actinobacterial diversity was investigated in the sediments of five cold springs in Wuli region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis. The actinobacterial communities of the studied cold springs were diverse and the obtained actinobacterial operational taxonomic units were classified into 12 actinobacterial orders (e.g., Acidimicrobiales, Corynebacteriales, ...

the moist sample shrinks during drying and the non-uniformity shrinkage involves stresses in the body. the aim of the present work is simulating deformations and drying-induced stresses of carrot slice during a convective drying. the effect of shrinkage on the heat and mass transfer profiles were considered. non-constant physical and thermal properties were also incorporated in the model and th...

in this research an experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications and 11 treatments was conducted of mentha piperita. treatments consisted of dryer drying, artificial shade drying, oven drying (50 and 70 °c), and microwave drying with different powers (100, 180, 300, 450, 600 and 900 w) and fresh sample as control. the end time of each treatment determined on the basi...

In this data article, laboratory experimental investigation results on drying kinetic properties: the drying temperature (T), drying air velocity (V) and dewatering time (Te), each of the factors has five levels, and the experiment was replicated three times and the output: drying rate and drying time obtained, were observed. The experiment was conducted at National Centre for Agricultural Mech...

in this study the efficacy of intermittent and continuous drying processes on fissuring of hashemi and koohsar varieties was investigated. the fissuring of the kernels was assessed based on stress cracking index (sci). the experiments were carried out at drying and tempering temperatures of 30, 45 and 60 °c, drying durations of 20, 40 and 60 min, and constant tempering duration of 80 min. in co...