Jiménez Moya, Ana(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-06-16)
[EN] Purpose: To obtain an analysis tool of brain tumors evolution, to evaluate treatment response early and non-invasively.
Methods: Twenty five tumors from sixteen brain metastases patients have been examined by anatomical ...
[EN] The drying of Eucalyptus nitens is a troublesome process as the species is extremely prone to drying defects. This paper reports ongoing research to improve the understanding of surface checking and cell collapse in ...
[EN] Commercial drying methods are limited either by high production costs or significant quality loss due to process-related stresses. The near-ubiquitous use of freeze-drying in the pharmaceutical industry makes it the ...
[EN] Pore-network simulations are carried out for monomodal and bimodal pore structures with spatially correlated pore-size distributions. The internal and surface relationships between the partial vapor pressure and ...
[EN] Thermal properties of brown seaweeds (Saccharina latissima) were determined using DSC technique in the temperature range between -150.0 and 50.0 °C. The following phase transitions were detected: glass transitions, ...
[EN] his study discusses the influence of temperature and total moisture content on ice fraction in organic apples during atmospheric freeze-drying process. The ice formation of glass transition events were described by ...
Ruprecht, Nora; Kohlus, Reinhard(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] The residence time distribution (RTD) in a pilot plant spray dryer was characterised for two kinds of air distributors (centrifugal and parallel flow) and for different atomizing air pressures. To determine the RTD - ...
Chigozie, Offurum; Morgan, C.M.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] The water content determination of two maize species (Yellow corn- and White corn- ) located at Ohaji in Imo State of Nigeria were considered in this study. This was motivated by the regular reported cases of the ...
[EN] Puffing is an attractive alternative for the production of healthy crisp snacks without frying. Although image analysis has been used in some prior studies to evaluate puffing, such an evaluation was made only in one ...
Sharma, Sadhana; Nema, P. H.; Emanuel, N.; Singha, S.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] Nowadays, there is high consumer demand in the market for simple to prepare, convenient, healthy and natural foods. Paneer or Indian cottage cheese is an acid and heat coagulated milk product which serves as a rich ...
[EN] Hot water extract of sugar and red maple bark was added to maple syrup and dried by freeze (FD) and vacuum drum drying (VD) techniques. Addition of maple bark extracts to syrup helped to develop polyphenols-enriched ...
[EN] Nanocomposites are novel materials increasingly used in the food packaging industry because of their enhanced properties with respect to unfilled polymers, more specifically in active packaging because of their great ...
[EN] The effect of the direction of the meat fiber on the diffusion of sodium nitrate and water in Semimembranosus pork muscle during curing was studied at different temperatures. Nitrate and water diffusion were modelled ...
[EN] In this work, an isothermal pore network model has been utilized to investigate ion transport and crystallization in layerd porous media during drying. Said network consists of two distinct layers each with a different ...
Whaley, Michael; Poandl, F.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] The evaporation of water is a major energy consumer around the world where the evaporation of water from agricultural products, natural resources, processed foods and feeds, and petrochemical products is required for ...
[EN] In order to conserve cuminum cyminum L. during long storage periods, the drying kinetics of this seed undergoing microwave-assisted fluidized bed dryer at various microwave output power (300, 600 and 900w), air velocity ...
Satimehin, A.; Oluwamukomi, M.; Enujiugha, V. N.; Bello, M.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] This study was conducted to determine the drying characteristics of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) at 50, 60 and 70 °C. Pleurotus ostreatus were cleaned and dried in a laboratory cabinet dryer. The drying data ...
Chin, S. K.; Lee, Y. H.; Chung, B. K.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] In this research, a Coulomb force assisted heat pump (CF-HP) dryer was invented for the purpose of improving the drying characteristics and product quality of biomaterials. As compared to heat pump drying alone, the ...
Oh, Sang Hyun; Park, Ki Ho; Yu, Byoung Hyuk; Kim, Sung Il(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] The purpose of this study is to analyze the changes of drying efficiency according to the inflow conditions of outside air into the drying equipment during the drying process in order to reduce the energy used in the ...
Sánchez-García, Consuelo; Del Ángel-Coronel, Óscar Ándres; Paniagua-Martínez, Ingrid; Luna-Solano, Guadalupe; Ramírez-Martínez, Alejandra(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] Capsicum pubescens, a chili specie present in south Mexico (Veracruz state) registers upon 30% loss due to the constraints of the market. Therefore, the objective of this project was to determine the physical and ...