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| Akande, Fatai Bukola. |
| Some moisture-dependent physical properties of sour-sop seed were investigated. Results of experiments on rewetted sour-sop seed showed increasing in length, width, thickness, arithmetic and geometric mean diameter, volume, surface area, sphericity, and 1000 seeds weight from 14.91-15.69, 8.71-9.24, 5.39-5.56, 9.67 - 10.16, 8.81 - 9.27 mm, 0.57 – 11.67 cm3, 244.98 - 270.89 mm2, 0.56 - 0.59 and 255.7 – 285 g, respectively within moisture range of 8 – 32.5% (db). An increasing trend for bulk density and true density was observed from 0.52 – 0.59 g/cm3 and 0.47 – 0.60 gcm-3. Porosity of the seed decreased from 9.62 – 4.73 %. Angle of repose was increased linearly from 25.7 – 33.3o with increase in moisture content from 8.0 – 32.5% (db). At all moisture... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Sour-sop seed; Moisture content; Physical properties; Post-harvest technology. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3021 |
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| Akande, Fatai Bukola; Fashina, Adepoju Bola; Saleh, Aminu. |
| The importance of engineering properties on agricultural materials in determining the parameters for agricultural produce processing and equipment design and development cannot be over emphasized. Knowledge of these properties is necessary for the design of various separating, handling, storage and drying systems. Three varieties of groundnuts commonly cultivated in Nigeria were identified, selected and procured. They were: Samnut 10, Samnut 14 and Samnut 18. The aim of the study was to investigate varietal differences for seed weight, average length, thickness, width, geometric mean diameter, degree of sphericity, volume, true densities, surface area, aspect ratio and hydration capacity of the three selected groundnut pods and kernels at 8% moisture... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/3007 |
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