Wild pomegranate arils were blanched in hot water at 85°C for one minute and then pretreated by soaking in 0.2% solution of potassium metabisulphite (KMS) for 2 minutes. The pretreated arils were dried in a mechanical drier at 60°C as well as in a solar drier. The time taken to bring the moisture content to 8% (db) during mechanical drying and solar drying was 5.5 hours and 13 hours respectivel...

The unpredictable rise and frequent scarcity of fossil fuel accelerated the continuous search for an alternative power source. Solar is one of the renewable and sustainable sources of power that attracted a large community of researchers from all over the world. This is largely due to its abundant in both direct and indirect form. As such the development of efficient and inexpensive equipment f...

drying behavior of two types of pomegranates as well as the effect of drying conditions on moisture loss trend and on effective diffusion coefficient of arils are discussed in this article. also, an appropriate mathematical drying model as well as the activation energy of sweet and sour pomegranate arils, dried in vacuum and microwave driers are pursued and presented. results of regression anal...

An evacuated tube solar collector drier is designed and developed to study analytically and experimentally drying kinetics of Thompson seedless grapes in Pune, India. Drying experiments are carried out in the month of April- June for continuous three years from 2013-2015. During the experimentation, temperatures of hot and cold air at various places, ambient relative humidity and humidity varia...

In a previous study conducted by Simo Tagne to designing solar dryer based on mathematical equations for iroko wood in Cameroon, Africa. However, there is no complete simulation of the drying process tool, resulting lack detailed elaboration process. The purpose this simulate detail tool using an ANSYS simulation. model used still uses same that has been studied before. This research begins set...

A study was conducted to find out the optimum tray load and drier type for the drying of osmosed mango, guava slices and aonla segments. The osmosed slices and segments were dehydrated in a cabinet drier, low temperature drier and vacuum drier with the tray loads of 0.30, 0.35, 0.40 and 0.45 g/cm. On the basis of, correlation and regression analyses performed by using dehydration time (h), drie...