energy and mass transfer investigations in thermal processing of fruits serve as a breakthrough in the design and scale up of drying systems. diffusivity characteristics and specific energy consumption for drying of fig fruit in a laboratory scale microwave dryer were assessed. several intervals for microwave power intensity including 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.5 w g-1, and 6 levels of power on-off ...

jujube (zizyphus jujube mill), a valuable medicinal plant, is consumed either as fresh fruit or dried product in iran. drying jujube guarantees a longer shelf time while preserving its quality to be used in medical and pharmaceutical industries. in this research paper, the influence of several drying conditions on the effective moisture diffusivity, activation energy, energy consumption and req...

Fuel cells convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy with high efficiencies and environmental benefits, as compared with traditional heat engines. Yttria-stabilized zirconia is perhaps the material with the most potential as an electrolyte in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), owing to its stability and near-unity ionic transference number. Although there exist materials with superio...

The response of the heart to electrical shock, electrical propagation in sinus rhythm, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of ventricular fibrillation all depend critically on the electrical anisotropy of cardiac tissue. A long-held view of cardiac electrical anisotropy is that electrical conductivity is greatest along the myocyte axis allowing most rapid propagation of electrical activation in thi...

Electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient in regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (RR-P3HT) doped with iodine (I2) have been studied in temperature (T) range from 4.2 K to 300 K and from 77 K to 300 K, respectively. In spite of high doping rate (about 30%), RR-P3HT doped with I2 shows a semiconductive behavior in view of temperature dependence of both electrical conductivity and Seebeck co...

the nylon and nylon/lycra yarns were coated with electrically conductive polymers such as polyaniline and polypyrrole, via chemical polymerization process. electrical conductivity of the coated yarns was measured at variousstrain levels using two-point probe technique and their strain sensitivities were studied. the results showed that, electrical conductivity of the coated yarns decreased with...

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) provides a way to fabricate graphite composite bipolar plates, which significantly reduces time and cost at the research and development stage of bipolar plates, as compared with the conventional fabrication methods of compression molding and injection molding. Different graphite materials (natural graphite, synthetic graphite, carbon black, and carbon fiber) wer...

ZnTe thin films were deposited by the two-source evaporation technique on amorphous glass substrate. The deposited films were annealed under nitrogen ambient pressure. The resistivity of the film annealed under nitrogen pressure of 100 mbar was found to be less than that of as-deposited film by more than four orders of magnitude. The films structures were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD...