Blueberries are rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and flavor — but their high moisture content makes them highly perishable. Drying is one of the most effective methods to extend their shelf life while preserving their nutritional and organoleptic qualities. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), blueberries rank high on the list of the …

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The heat treatment of plastics (known as annealing and Normalising) is important to make sure tight tolerances are maintained during precision machining, bonding and polishing and to avoid cracking and crazing. Heat treating also eliminates internal stresses and ensures higher mechanical and thermal properties. While not this essential heat treatment method, it’s virtually impossible to …

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Natural diamonds form deep underground, about 177 to 241 km below the surface. Pressures at this depth can reach nearly 50,000 atm. (One atmosphere, or “atm,” is similar to the air pressure at sea-level). Temperatures will vary from 900º to 1,300º C. These intense conditions compress carbon into its most compact type, making diamonds in …

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Imagine processing three whole tons of coconut shells on an everyday. Now imagine processing three tons per hour. That’s what you’ll be able to do with among the finest coconut shell charcoal making machines. These machines turn the shells into charcoal, and you’ll depend upon high cost performance and potency. This equipment is popular in …

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For a Manufacturer of proprietary granular chemical product, long production times and inconsistent drying times were the problems. A circular fluid-bed dryer/screener system from KERONE provided the solutions. With a circular fluid bed dryer/screener, converted material from storage containers is fed into the top inlet of the dryer by a bucket elevator. Within the fluid-bed …

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Dryer is one of the key piece of equipment in pellet production. Dryers are one of the most expensive and energy intensive pieces of equipment in the pellet line. Rotary drum dryers have relatively low cost and easy operation procedures. They have a tumbler that regularly exposes the green material to hot air. Suspension dryers …

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Conventional rice drying is performed using heated air that transfers energy to the surface of grain kernels by convection. The energy transfer within the kernel is done by conduction. Water is desorbed into the drying air from the kernel surface, and a moisture gradient is established within the kernel, with water molecules diffusion toward the …

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Cassava is a woody shrub of the spurge family that are widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world like in Africa, Asia, and America. Every year, the world is manufacturing around 250 million tonnes of cassava. Completely different types of cassava are usually classified into sweet cassava and bitter cassava, they contain …

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Poultry litter is a nuisance, particularly once you don’t treat it well and leave it wet on a pile in or outside your poultry house. It releases high levels of ammonia inflicting poor environmental conditions for the birds and the employees inside the house as well as for the neighbors. Additionally, ammonia is seen as …

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The mechanism for drying with microwave energy is quite different from that of standard drying. In standard drying, heat is transferred to the surface of the material by conduction, convection or radiation, and into the interior of the material by thermal conduction. Moisture is initially flashed far from the surface, and therefore the remaining water …

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