CONTENTS 18.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................
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CONTENTS 26.1 Freezing in Biological Materials.............................................................................
..................... 636 26.2 Mode of Preserving Action …

The effect of various dipping pretreatments on drying kinetics of grapes under warm air
convective drying conditions has been studied. A dryer was built to perform the experiment …

The surface wax (bloom) of the grape berry occurs in amounts of about 0.1 mg/cm2 and is
chemically a mixture of long-chain alcohols, esters of such alcohols and fatty acids, free fatty …

Mass losses and low quality are the most serious disadvantages of traditional grape drying
methods. For the production of high quality raisins an increase in the drying rate is required …

For determination of drying kinetics of Thompson seedless grapes a suitable experimental
unit for online measurement was designed and fabricated. The drying characteristics of oil …

The surface wax of the drying grape sultana has been examined using the technique of
scanning electron microscopy. The wax layers of both untreated fresh grapes and of dried …

Experiments on prune drying with different surface treatments were carried out. Air
temperature, relative humidity and velocity conditions, characteristic of solar multishelf batch …

Cut alfalfa was treated in the laboratory with mixed methyl esters of long chain fatty acids
and a surfactant, X-77, alone and (or) with potassium carbonate. Significant increases over …

The effects of a chemical drying agent on in situ rate and extent of disappearance of DM,
NDF, and ADF of alfalfa were investigated. Two field replicates of first-and second-cutting …