{"title":"Drying Characteristics of Rose Flowers","authors":"J. Raol, M. T. Kumpavat, D. M. Vyas","doi":"10.52151/jae2013501.1503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013501.1503","url":null,"abstract":"Full boom rose was dried by employing different drying methods such as hot air drying at 40, 50 and 60 0C, microwave oven drying with silica gel at 50 0C, vacuum drying at 40 0C and 760 mm Hg pressure besides solar and shade drying to find out the most suitable method and parameters. The Exponential and Page’s model were tested for their validity. Page’s model was found to fit best. The maximum and minimum drying time for rose flowers was 5 days in shade and 13 minutes in microwave oven. Drying of rose flowers under all treatments completely took place in the falling rate period. Maximum overall drying rate of 5.87 %/min was during microwave oven drying with silica gel at 50oC, followed by vacuum drying at 40oC. Microwave oven drying of rose flowers at 50oC with silica gel was found the best from the reduction in size point of view.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"65 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Dietary Fibre from Potato Peel and its Effect on Organoleptic Characteristics of Biscuits","authors":"D. Dhingra, M. Michael, Hradesh Rajput","doi":"10.52151/jae2012494.1492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2012494.1492","url":null,"abstract":"Potato peel, a by-product of potato processing industry, is a rich source of fibre and anti-oxidants. Potato peel","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"60 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moisture Dependent Physical Properties of Chickling Pea","authors":"Samodini S. Nevase, P. Nimkar, B. D. Kadu","doi":"10.52151/jae2013503.1521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013503.1521","url":null,"abstract":"Effect of increase in moisture content from 6.12 to 31.42 % (d.b.) on physical properties of chickling pea of two varieties (lakh and lakholi) were evaluated by using standard procedures. Grain size, sphericity and grain volume increased due to change in the moisture content. The bulk density and true density decreased from 831 to 785 kg.mm-3 and 1333 to 1231 kg.mm-3, respectively, for lakh and 861 to 749 kg.mm-3 and 1303 to 1202 kg.mm-3,respectively, for lakholi. Thousand grain mass and bulk porosity increased from 78.68 to 83.98 g and 37.64 to 42.85 %, respectively, for lakh and 66.06 to 76.02 g and 36.20 to 41.58 %, respectively for lakholi. The angle of repose and terminal velocity increased from 31.49 to 37.82° and 12 to 13.71 m.s-1, respectively, for lakh and 25.78 to 31.08° and 11 to 13 m.s-1, respectively for lakholi.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"59 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kalne, N. Kotwaliwale, Karan Singh, V. K. Singh
{"title":"Non-Destructive Inspection of Mango Fruit Using Digital Radiography, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging","authors":"A. Kalne, N. Kotwaliwale, Karan Singh, V. K. Singh","doi":"10.52151/jae2012494.1493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2012494.1493","url":null,"abstract":"Presence of seed weevil, internal physiological disorders and spongy tissues are undesirable internal features that are often found in mangoes. Fruits affected by these defects many times do not show any external symptom, and thus","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"77 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance of Geo-synthetic Filter Materials as Drain Envelope in Land Reclamation in Haryana","authors":"M. Lal, V. Arora, S. Gupta","doi":"10.52151/jae2012494.1490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2012494.1490","url":null,"abstract":"Geo-synthetic envelope materials are increasingly replacing gravel/sand in subsurface drainage systems commonly installed to reclaim waterlogged salt affected lands. The availability constraints of gravel/sand envelopes, transport cost, design complexities, application difficulties in mechanized construction helped the switchover to synthetic envelopes, especially geo-synthetic materials. Geo-synthetic envelope materials used in Haryana Operational Research Project (HOPP) were found to be strong enough to withstand handling during transport, manual or machine wrapping, and for use with a drainage pipe laying machine. These materials were tested in the laboratory to characterize them and recommend their use as envelope materials. The field data after 3 and 6 years of installation of the drainage system at Jhajjar in Haryana with geo-synthetic envelope materials revealed much less silting of pipes than the recommended guidelines. The characteristics of a woven synthetic material used to wrap perforated collector pipes are discussed. A machine earlier designed to wrap the geo-synthetic material was evaluated for its capacity. The machine could handle 1.5-2.0 km of pipe daily with 8 semi-skilled labourers, enabling to cope up with the demand of a pipe-laying trencher machine that could lay about 1.5 km of laterals in a single day.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"268 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Osmotic Dehydration of Pineapple with Sucrose: Mass Transfer Kinetics","authors":"D. Dhingra, D. Kadam, Jasjit Singh, R. Patil","doi":"10.52151/jae2013501.1499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013501.1499","url":null,"abstract":"Osmotic dehydration of pineapple (Ananas comosus Linn.) slices (6, 9 and 12 mm) was carried out using aqueous solutions of sucrose of different concentrations (40, 50 and 60 % w/w) as osmotic media, at various fruit to solution ratios (1:2, 1:4 and 1:6). Total mass, water loss, solute gain and moisture content were determined for each sample at different time intervals (up to 6 h) of contact with the osmotic media. Regression analysis revealed that the osmotic dehydration kinetics depends strongly on sucrose concentration and slice thickness. The water loss and solute gain are more intensive at higher sucrose concentration and lower slice thickness. The effect of all the process parameters was observed to be significant at 10% level on both water loss and solute gain. Penetration and Magee model was fitted to the experimental data. Magee model was observed to represent water loss and solute gain more accurately as compared to Penetration model.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"242 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water Use Efficiency of Salt Tolerant and Non-Tolerant Wheat Varieties under Irrigated Saline Regimes","authors":"P. Kumar, A. Sarangi, Dhyan Singh, S. Parihar","doi":"10.52151/jae2013501.1504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013501.1504","url":null,"abstract":"Enhancing productivity from irrigated saline environment is of paramount importance to meet the increasing food demand in India. An experiment was conducted during rabi seasons of 2009-10 and 2010-11 with different irrigation water salinity levels and four wheat varieties, including 3 salt tolerant and one non-salt-tolerant.The yield of nonsalt tolerant variety HD-2894 irrigated with ground water (EC 1.7 dS.m-1) was highest (5.25 t.ha-1) with WUE of 18.62 kg.ha-1.mm-1. The salt tolerant variety KRL-1-4, however, produced highest yield of 4.6 t.ha-1, 4.2 t.ha-1 and 3.9 t.ha-1at irrigation water salinity levels of 4, 8 and 12 dS.m-1, respectively, during rabi 2010-11 with average yield higher by 26% and 41% as compared to non-salt tolerant variety HD2894 at irrigation water salinity levels 8 and 12 dS.m-1, respectively.The average water use efficiency of KRL-1-4 under salinity levels of 4, 8 and12 dS.m-1was 12.51 and 15kg.ha-1.mm-1 as compared to 8.75 and 10.33 kg.ha-1.mm-1 for the non-salt tolerant variety during 2009- 10 and 2010-11, respectively. Highest deposition of salt was at the top 15cm soil depth ranging from 1.21 t.ha-1in ground water irrigated plot to 6.22 t.ha-1 in plots with salinity level of 12 dS.m-1. About 66% of salt got deposited in the root zone depth up to 75cm during the crop growth period. It emerged that as the salinity of irrigation water increases, a switchover from high yielding non-salt-tolerant variety to a salt tolerant variety is desirable to achieve higher yields and higher water use efficiencies.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"348 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Chandrasekar, R. Kailappan, R. Kasthuri, K. Rajamani
{"title":"Moisture Dependent Physical and Thermal Properties of Coleus Tuber","authors":"V. Chandrasekar, R. Kailappan, R. Kasthuri, K. Rajamani","doi":"10.52151/jae2013501.1500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013501.1500","url":null,"abstract":"Some important physical and thermal properties of coleus tubers were determined in the moisture range of 466.62 to 21.52% (d.b). Selected physical properties namely weight, size; bulk density, particle density and porosity increased with increase in moisture content. Thermal properties viz. specific heat and thermal conductivity increased with increase in moisture content while thermal diffusivity recorded a decreasing trend.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"146 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. K. Chavan, P. Balakrishnan, S. Deshmukh, V. Ingle
{"title":"Evaluation of Adsorption Mechanism in Clogging of Materials Used in Drip Irrigation System","authors":"V. K. Chavan, P. Balakrishnan, S. Deshmukh, V. Ingle","doi":"10.52151/jae2013503.1523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013503.1523","url":null,"abstract":"Alaboratory study was conductedto understand the adsorption mechanism in clogging of different materials used in drip irrigation system. The adsorption characteristics of Langmuir and Freundlich equations for granules of PVC, LLDPE, silicon diaphragm (rubber button) and HDPE were analysed. The result indicated that the per cent clogging was higher for LLDPE indicating 6.9 to 11.1% from day 1 to day 15 compared to other grinded materials. The minimum per cent clogging was recorded as 1.1 to 3.0% for PVC. The adsorption study demonstrated that LLDPE is the most and PVC is the least susceptible to clogging.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"85 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ravikanth, D. Jayas, K. Alagusundaram, V. Chelladurai
{"title":"Measurement of Physical Dimensions of Mung Bean","authors":"L. Ravikanth, D. Jayas, K. Alagusundaram, V. Chelladurai","doi":"10.52151/jae2013501.1506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013501.1506","url":null,"abstract":"Physical dimensions of mung bean (Vigna radiate) are essential to design equipment for handling, conveying, separation, drying, aeration, storage and processing of mung bean. Physical dimensions (area, perimeter, maximum radius, minimum radius, mean radius, major axis length and minor axis length) were measured as a function of moisture content in the range of 9.9 to 18.3% w.b. using digital image processing technique. Four hundred and fifty individual kernels were selected randomly for each moisture content and colour image of individual kernels using a digital camera. Of the seven morphological features analyzed, four features (area, perimeter, maximum radius and mean radius) of mung bean were significantly (α=0.05) different at different moisture contents. These four features increased linearly with increase in moisture content of grain. Minimum radius and length of the mung bean kernel did not show significant change (α = 0.05) with increase in moisture content from 9.9 to 18.3% w.b.","PeriodicalId":180812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India)","volume":"232 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140453270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}