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Mengqing Li, Mengyao Li, Xuetao Zhang, Qian Zhang and Xuhai Yang
The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of infrared-combined hot air intermittent drying (IIRHAD) on energy consumption, drying characteristics, and the quality of jujube slices. The water content of jujube slices decreased from 0.26...
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Helga Francis, Espérance Debs, Richard G. Maroun and Nicolas Louka
Highly valued for their nutritional benefits, sprouts are characterized by high water content, which promotes microbial proliferation, potentially leading to toxicity and a reduced shelf life. To address this challenge, the present study explores the app...
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Hongti Wang, Fangyan Wang, Hongwei Gao, Xinting Zhai and Peng Li
Drying is an important process of cotton-stalk reconstituted material. The aim of this study was to find the best drying process of extruded cotton stalks by using three drying methods and applying single-factor experiments combined with response surface...
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Long Li, Xiaolan Man, Hong Zhang, Haipeng Lan, Yurong Tang, Xiuwen Fan and Yongcheng Zhang
The conditioning of moisture content is an effective way to improve walnut-crushing performance. In this study, firstly, walnuts with different moisture contents were used to conduct the crushing experiments. The distributions of fragment sizes of shells...
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Tugce Ozsan Kilic, Ismail Boyar, Cuneyt Dincer, Can Ertekin and Ahmet Naci Onus
A significant vegetable in the Cucurbitaceae family, the bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) is widely recognized for its beneficial health properties, including anti-diabetic, anti-carcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, antiviral activities. Wit...
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Tugce Ozsan Kilic, Ismail Boyar, Keziban Kubra Gungor, Mehmet Torun, Nuriye Altinay Perendeci, Can Ertekin and Ahmet Naci Onus
Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) is a plant species belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, growing in tropical regions and containing health-promoting beneficial compounds. In the current study, bitter gourds prepared for drying were sliced in three...
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Raimundo P. Farias, Ricardo S. Gomez, Elisiane S. Lima, Wilton P. Silva, Ivonete B. Santos, Maria J. Figueredo, Genival S. Almeida, Fagno D. Rolim, Vital A. B. Oliveira, Guilherme L. Oliveira Neto and Antonio G. B. Lima
Fresh bananas are fruits with high moisture content after harvest and are submitted to a drying process to minimize waste and increase shelf life. This work aims to experimentally study the convective drying of bananas in an oven with hot-air recirculati...
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Alice Sorrenti, Santo Fabio Corsino, Francesco Traina, Gaspare Viviani and Michele Torregrossa
This work reports the results obtained with an innovative configuration of a closed-static solar greenhouse for sludge drying. The novelty of the solar greenhouse configuration consisted in using a forced ventilation system to provide hot air for sludge ...
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Ebrahim Taghinezhad, Mohammad Kaveh and Antoni Szumny
The present study examined the effect of ultrasonic pretreatment at three time the levels of 10, 20 and 30 min on some thermodynamic (effective moisture diffusivity coefficient(Deff), drying time, specific energy consumption (SEC), energy efficiency, dry...
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Ivan Klement, Peter Vilkovský and Tatiana Vilkovská
In wood processing, wood is exposed to an environmental temperature of less than 0 °C for some time, which mainly occurs during the air drying of wood in the winter months, or when lumber is stored in wood piles outdoors before the kiln drying process. I...
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