| The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of moisture content on engineering properties of OL-09 variety of oat grains. Different engineering properties such as length, width, thickness, geometric mean diameter, volume, surface area, sphericity, bulk density, true density, porosity, angle of repose and angle of internal and external friction were determined in a moisture range of 8%-14% (wet basis, w.b) using standard methods. The physical properties such as length, width, thickness, geometric mean diameter, volume, surface area and sphericity significantly (P <0.05) increased from 15.01 to 16.19 mm, 3.06 to 3.60 mm, 2.78 to 3.11 mm, 5.03 to 5.65 mm, 37.00 to 52.98 mm3, 76.03 to 94.80 mm2 and 33.58% to 35.01%, respectively as the... |
