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Abstract
This study aims to enhance the processing efficiency of Camellia oleifera fruit by exploring the potential relationship between the splitting characteristics during the dehydration process and the structure of the C. oleifera shell. The analysis focused on understanding the structural changes, moisture transfer, and shrinkage strain of the C. oleifera shell during the shelling processes. The results indicate that the essence of shelling C. oleifera fruit is the uneven shrinkage strain of the shell after dehydration, with the uneven shrinkage of the mesocarp being the primary driving force for the separation of seeds from the shell. Because the cuticle prevents moisture transfer and epidermal cells limit shell shrinkage, the exocarp can restrict the efficiency of the shell shrinkage strain. By damaging the exocarp structure, the shelling efficiency of C. oleifera fruit can be increased by more than 50 % under both natural drying and hot air drying. Moreover, under hot air drying, the shelling efficiency of C. oleifera fruit with a damaged exocarp at a low temperature (55 ℃) is 12.5 % higher than that of undamaged fruit at a high temperature (75 ℃). This study provides new insights into improving the shelling efficiency of C. oleifera fruit.
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Official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering:
Part C
FBP aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in the branches of engineering and science dedicated to the safe processing of biological products. It is the only journal to exploit the synergy between biotechnology, bioprocessing and food engineering.
Papers showing how research results can be used in engineering design, and accounts of experimental or theoretical research work bringing new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating directions for future research, are particularly welcome. Contributions that deal with new developments in equipment or processes and that can be given quantitative expression are encouraged. The journal is especially interested in papers that extend the boundaries of food and bioproducts processing.
The journal has a strong emphasis on the interface between engineering and food or bioproducts. Papers that are not likely to be published are those:
• Primarily concerned with food formulation
• That use experimental design techniques to obtain response surfaces but gain little insight from them
• That are empirical and ignore established mechanistic models, e.g., empirical drying curves
• That are primarily concerned about sensory evaluation and colour
• Concern the extraction, encapsulation and/or antioxidant activity of a specific biological material without providing insight that could be applied to a similar but different material,
• Containing only chemical analyses of biological materials.