Starch is one of the food sources that can be extracted from cereals, roots, tubers and stem. Sago palm (metroxylon spp.) example starch source. The efficiency extraction process depends on mechanical properties material. This study was conducted to determine angle repose between grated sago kinetic friction contact surface material machine. (θ) determined by using a cone shape hopper attached ...

A technique based on microwave sensing technologies has been developed which provides a means of estimating the average moisture content across a stack of timber during kiln drying. The microwave sensor, which comprises of a linear array of slots excited from both ends, was developed and trialed under a range of standard commercial kiln drying schedules using 100mm x 50mm Pinus radiata sample b...

Smouldering wildfire is an important disturbance to peatlands worldwide; it contributes significantly global carbon emissions and provides positive feedback climate change. Herein, we explore the feasibility of firebreaks control smouldering peat fires through laboratory-scale experiments. The dry-mass moisture content (MC) soil was varied from 10% (air-dried) 125%. We found that fire may be su...

There are several phenomenons for polluting the environment, especially in coalfields; which coal spontaneous combustion is one of them. The moisture content is one of the intrinsic characteristics of coal, which has an important role in the occurrence of this phenomenon. Therefore, this research predicts the coal spontaneous combustion tendency based on moisture content. The percentage of mois...

Moisture content has significant effects on most properties of agricultural products. Acoustic technique is a suitable method for moisture prediction of grains and seeds, because the impact sound of seeds with a impact surface is highly affected by moisture content. In this study, a acoustic device was used to determine the moisture content of wheat grains (12‒ 32% wet basis) to the sound spect...

The influence of moisture content of mulberry leaf on the growth, development and moisture build up in the body of silkworm was studied by feeding with different maturity leaves to late age of silkworm larvae. Significantly higher larval moisture (79.78%), larval weight (65.65 g), pupal moisture (73.81%) was recorded in top tender leaf (high moisture) fed batches and least was recorded in the c...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND AND AIMS The negative logarithmic relationship between orthodox seed longevity and moisture content in hermetic storage is subject to a low-moisture-content limit (m(c)), but is m(c) affected by temperature? METHODS Red clover (Trifolium pratense) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa) seeds were stored hermetically at 12 moisture contents (2-15 %) and five temperatures (-20, 30,...

Density-independent high moisture content measurement is required in actual production line. In this paper, the experimental results for high moisture content measurement using microwave free-space technique are presented. The method is based on a ratio of phase shifts at two microwave frequencies after propagating through a sample. The experiments were performed with three kinds of sawdust nam...

The aim of this work was to model the moisture content ( MC ) and drying rate DR using artificial neural network (ANN) methodology. Many architectures have been tested best topology selected based on a trial error method. dataset randomly divided into 60, 20, 20 % for training, test, validation stage ANN model, respectively. 10-{29-13}-2 obtained with high correlation coefficient R (%) {99.98, ...

The process of wood drying can induce defects caused by drying stress, which limits the processing and utilization of this valuable material. Here, we investigated elastic strain, viscoelastic creep strain, and mechanosorptive (MS) creep strain caused by shrinkage anisotropy using the image analytical method during slow conventional drying of white birch (Betula platyphylla Suk) disks. The rheo...