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Development Of A One Pass Microwave Heating Technology For Rice Drying And Decontamination, Deandrae Lynette Smith May 2017

Development Of A One Pass Microwave Heating Technology For Rice Drying And Decontamination, Deandrae Lynette Smith

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

An industrial microwave (MW) system operating at 915 MHz frequency was used to dry high moisture content (MC) (23% to 24% wet basis) medium-grain rough rice samples (cv. Jupiter). The rice beds were contained in a modified tray that accommodated up to 9 kg of rice separated by thin fiberglass mesh in 3 kg increments. Each layer of rice was fitted with fiber optic sensors connected to a real time data logger during MW treatments. It was determined that drying rice to a MC of 14% to 16% was feasible with the application of MW specific energy at 600 kJ/kg-grain …


Effect Of Drying Temperature On Quality Of Debittered Apricot Kernels, Zhang Xinyun, Song Yun, Fan Xuehui, Zhang Qingan Apr 2017

Effect Of Drying Temperature On Quality Of Debittered Apricot Kernels, Zhang Xinyun, Song Yun, Fan Xuehui, Zhang Qingan

Food and Machinery

Effects of the drying temperatures (60, 80, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140 ℃)on the major quality of debittered apricot kernels drying products were studied. The results showed that with increase of drying temperature, the main component of debittered apricot nuts decreased after the first increase. Values of peroxide and acid of debittered apricot kernels increased with drying temperature. Drying temperature influenced on the color of debittered apricot nuts significantly. There was a good correlation between the protein (r=0.713 0), leucine (r=0.659 8), histidine (r=0.765 2), reducing sugar (r=0.800 1), aspartic acid (r=0.638 7), glutamic acid (r=0.801 5), valine (r=0.812 0), …