This paper describes dynamic and static measurement methods for wide-range moisture content of agricultural products such as rice and silage. The proposed method uses the attenuation and phase shift of the microwave transmitted signal through a microstrip transmission line (MSTL) sensor. The results of dynamic measurements of rice samples with low moisture content(< 18 %) showed close agreement...

showing the occurrence of glass/rubber transition in bovine serum albumin (a globular protein) atlow moisture levels and the occurrence of maillard crosslinking in gelatin in previous works, the importanceof the state of glass or rubber of bsa on the rate and extent of polymerisation, protein solubility, colour andsds page patterns in the presence and absence of ascorbic acid, diketogulonic aci...

Tropical cyclone (TC) tornadoes produced by supercells occur in characteristic thermodynamic environments of  rich low-level moisture,  high precipitable water and  commonly (but not always) enhancement to CAPE by diurnal, diabatic surface heating. These factors juxtapose with strong low-level shear magnitudes, high storm-relative helicity and enlarged hodographs to optimize supercellular to...

A novel strain Rhizopus sp. C4 was isolated from compost for the production of pectinase. Cultivation of Rhizopus sp. C4 on orange peel substrate under various solid-state fermentation (SSF) conditions was evaluated for pectinase yield along with the enzyme activity profile as a potential, low-cost alternative to submerged-liquid fermentation. Response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to ...

Slated for launch in 2015, the NASA Soil Moisture Active/Passive mission represents a significant advance in our ability to globally observe time and space variations in surface soil moisture fields. The SMAP mission concept is based on the integrated use of L-band active radar and passive radiometry measurements to optimize both the accuracy and resolution of remotelysensed surface soil moistu...

A GIS framework, the Army Remote Moisture System (ARMS), has been developed to link the Land Information System (LIS), a high performance land surface modeling and data assimilation system, with remotely sensed measurements of soil moisture to provide a high resolution estimation of soil moisture in the near surface. ARMS uses available soil (soil texture, porosity, Ksat), land cover (vegetatio...

densification of biomass material that usually has a low density is proper way to increasing density,reduce transportation cost and simplify storage and distribution of these materials. pellet productionusing extrusion process is a common method for densification. the goal of this research isoptimization of specific energy consumption for extrusion process considering its effect on pelletdensit...

Daily transpiration rate was decreased by low soil moisture, phenylmercuric acetate (PMA) in combination with kaolinite, Mobileaf (a filmforming wax emulsion manufactured by the Mobil Oil Co.), PMA alone, and kaolinite alone in this order. At high soil moisture, dry matter was decreased by PMA but was increased by Mobileaf and by PMA + kaolinite combination. At low soil moisture, dry matter was...

Determination of moisture content in lyophilized solids is fundamental to predict quality and stability of freeze-dried products, but conventional methods are time-consuming, invasive and destructive. The aim of this study was to develop and optimize a fast, inexpensive, noninvasive and nondestructive method for determination of moisture content in lyophilized mannitol, based on an NIR micro-sp...