BACKGROUND AND AIMS Optimization of osmotic dehydration in different plant cells has been investigated through the variation of parameters such as the nature of the sugar used, the concentration of osmotic solutions and the processing time. In micro-organisms such as the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the exposure of a cell to a slow increase in osmotic pressure preserves cell viability after...

This paper investigates the thermal and irradiation-dependent dehydration and kinetics occurring in Na2SO4.10H2O (mirabilite) and MgSO4.7H2O (epsomite) at room conditions by using powder X-ray thermodiffraction. An improved version of a first optically stimulated X-ray diffractometer prototype was used. Specific software for the thermodiffraction study was developed (XPowder PLUS) and a filter ...

While heating a seawater spiral shell (Euplica scripta), thermally induced aragonite–calcite (A–C) transformation occurred within the temperature region of multistep thermal dehydration. Here, kinetic interplay between A–C and dehydration was studied as possible cause reduction in temperatures. The kinetics systematically investigated under isothermal conditions by powder X-ray diffractometry l...