Thermal processing of the key lime juice leads to the inactivation of pectin methylesterase (PME) and the degradation of ascorbic acid (AA). These changes affect directly the cloud stability and color of the juice. In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was applied for designing and developing an intelligent system for prediction of the thermal processing effects on the physico...

in this work, sol-gel processing was used to synthesize the fluorohydroxyapatite (nano-fha, ca10(po4)6(oh)2−xfx) nanopowders. the advantages of the sol-gel method over other methods are precise control of composition, low processing temperature, and better homogeneity. calcium nitrate tetrahydrate, phosphorous pentoxide and tetrabuthylammonium fluoride were used, respectively, as p, ca, and f p...

Thermal and non-thermal technologies are both used in the processing and preservation of foods. Recently, awareness about good nutrition coupled with the increasing demand for fresher tasting food have paved theway for new food processing technologies.These include thermalprocessingmethods such asmicrowave (MW), radiofrequency (RF), infrared (IR) heating, pressure-assisted thermal sterilization...

In this paper, a new optical approach based on omnidirectional thermal visualization system is proposed. It will provides observer or image processing tool a 360 degree viewing of surrounding area using a single thermal camera. By applying the proposed omnidirectional thermal visualization system even in poor lighting condition, surrounding area is under proper surveillance and the surrounding ...

this research is aimed to undertake a comparative study on stability and thermal degradation kinetics of un-irradiated and high energy protons irradiated polyvinyl butyral (pvb) based on weight loss analysis and non-isothermal approaches. the weight loss by the un-irradiated pvb upon heating was found to be in two stages but due to high energy protons accelerated exposure following by chemical ...

In this paper infrared (IR) measurements and dedicated signal processing algorithms were developed and applied for defect detection on green ceramic tiles. Tiles with defects having known dimension and position were realized and tested by acquiring either heating and cooling transients of the tile subjected to thermal pulse excitation. As rarely defects appear directly in the thermal map, post-...

This paper presents a novel approach to measuring and mapping shape and motion of the water surface. The approach combines and borrows from existing techniques, such as stereo imaging shape recognition and tracking, infrared (IR) laser marking and thermography, and particle image velocimetry. The system consists of a high power IR laser beam controlled by a programmable marking head and two IR ...

This study investigated a novel method of fusing visible (VIS) and infrared (IR) images with the major objective of obtaining higher-resolution IR images. Most existing image fusion methods focus only on visual performance and many fail to consider the thermal physical properties of the IR images, leading to spectral distortion in the fused image. In this study, we use the IR thermal physical p...