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Dehydration of vegetables and fruits

Dehydration of fruit and vegetables is one among the oldest varieties of food preservation techniques well-known to man and consists primarily of establishments engaged in sun drying or by artificial means dehydrating fruits and vegetables. Though food preservation is that the primary reason for dehydration, dehydration of   fruits and vegetables   additionally lowers the price of packaging, storing, and transportation by reducing each the burden and volume of the ultimate product. Given the improvements within the quality of dehydrated foods, together with the multiplied specialize in instant and convenience foods; the potential of dehydrated fruits and vegetables is larger than ever. Drying or dehydration  is the elimination of the bulk of water contained within the fruit or vegetable and the primary stage within the production of dehydrated fruits and vegetables. Many drying ways are commercially available in the market and therefore the choice of the best methodology is set by qual

Understanding Powder Coating Processing Steps and Components

  Powder coating could be a dry coating method used as a metal and totally on industrial Equipment’s. Powder coating is applied as dry powder through an electricity method, and then cured with heat. Its standard for providing high-quality finishes in terms of each practicality and overall look. The powder coating finishes aren’t solely durable however versatile moreover. It will be used on completely different surfaces, together with metal, concrete, steel, and plastic. It’s appropriate for each indoors and outdoors applications, and it’s one in all the foremost cost-efficient end choices. Weighing, premixing and size reduction of raw materials Raw materials usually include organic compound, natural process agents, pigments, extenders and additives like flow and degassing aids. Each part is then weighed with the mandatory degree of accuracy. All pre-weighed parts are placed in a very intermixture instrumentality consistent with the formulation. The instrumentality is then connected to

Heat Treatment Solutions for the Automotive Industry

  The vehicles that we utilize to travel to work, home, and beyond are built almost entirely of components processed using an application requiring heat. Not all of the applications need a melting forge or heat treating forge. Some need an industrial oven at a lower temperature. Contemporary industrial operations face relentless environmental and economic pressures: systematic use and management of resources and energy, emissions reduction, process reliability. These challenges can only be raised by constantly improving methods and process technology. In the automotive field, for example, improved heat treatment processes increase the strength and toughness properties of metallic structural components, and contemporary surface engineering technologies reduce the effects of abrasion and attrition. Heat treatment is a managed process used to alter the microstructure of materials such as metals and alloys to pass on properties which benefit the working life of a component, for example inc

Electrophoresis Gel Drying Systems and Components

  Positive or negative electrical charges are frequently related to biomolecules. Once placed in an electrical field, charged biomolecules move towards the conductor of opposite charge thanks to the development of static attraction. Natural action is that the separation of charged molecules in associate degree applied force field. The relative quality of individual molecules depends on many factors. The foremost vital of that area unit web charge, charge/mass quantitative relation, molecular form and therefore the temperature, body and body of the matrix through that the molecule migrates. Complicated mixtures will be separated to terribly high resolution by this method. Hydrated gel networks have several fascinating properties for electrophoresis. They permit a good style of automatically stable experimental formats like horizontal/vertical electrophoresis in block gels or electrophoresis in tubes or capillaries. The mechanical stability conjointly facilitates post action manipulation

Sterilization Method in Chemical and Psychological

  Sterilization indicates to any process that removes, kills, or deactivates all compositions of microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, spores, unicellular eukaryotic organisms such as Plasmodium, etc. Sterilization can be attainted through diverse means, including heat, chemicals, irradiation, high pressure, and filtration.   Sterilization   is distinct from disinfection, sanitization , and pasteurization , in that those methods reduce rather than destroying all forms of life and biological agents present. After sterilization, an object is resorted to as being sterile or aseptic. Chemicals are also accustomed for sterilization. Heating provides an infallible way to exterminate objects of all transmissible agents, but it is not always suitable if it will vandalize heat-sensitive materials such as biological materials, fiber optics, electronics, and many plastics. In these circumstances chemicals, either in a gaseous or liquid form can be used as sterilants. While the use of g

Importance of Thermal Processing in Food Industry

  Thermal processing is defined as the aggregate of temperature and time required to remove a specific number of microorganisms from a food product. The three general equipment classifications for  thermal processing equipment  are: Batch Semi-continuous Continuous Classification used depends upon the scope of production and the nature of the business. While the science behind heat treatment remains mostly the same, definite advantages can be achieved from selective oven and furnace types. As an example it is possible to follow through the annealing process in air furnaces, vacuum furnaces, and gas purged retort furnaces, amongst others. Correspondingly the surface chemistry process of carburizing can be carried out in a range of equipment types including batch and continuous atmosphere controlled furnaces, pusher furnaces, or vacuum furnaces. The range of furnace types is exceedingly different. The term “Thermal” refers to processes intricating heat. Heating is a successful way of con

Electromagnetic Energy in Food Processing

  The use of electromagnetic energy in food processing is considered with respect to food safety, nutritional quality, and organoleptic quality. The results of nonionizing radiation sources such as microwave and radio-frequency energy and ionizing radiate on sources. Nonionizing microwave energy sources are more and more used in home and industrial food processing and are well-accepted by the end users. But, even though new-fangled Food and Drug Administration approval of low and intermediate ionizing radiation dose levels for grains and further plants products. Microwave  and  radio frequency  energy are allotments of the electromagnetic spectrum that can redeem heat to foods selectively and systematically. Explicitly, microwaves interrelate with water in foods to heat preponderant those allotments that are wet. End users are usual with microwave ovens as household appliances used to warm and cook foods, defrost frozen foods, and pop popcorn. On an industrial scale, microwaves have be

Role of heating systems in the process of sterilization

Bacteria, viruses and enzymes are inseparable part of food, milk, chemical and other many processing industries. However, the struggle has always been to protect from them, there could be plethora of reasons why these bacteria, viruses and enzymes needs to be killed/eliminated either for increasing the life, avoiding contamination, stop viral infection and many more. This process is very commonly known as sterilization. Sterilization can be attained by the multiple ways such as heating, irradiation, and filtration and by the way of chemical reactions, amongst all the  sterilization processes  the heat processing is one of the oldest and proven support  processing system . With advancement of technology and processing systems, the sterilization process has become more efficient and cost effective. There are many other processes across various industries that which we some time get puzzled with such as disinfection, sanitization, pasteurization and etc, but these processes are co

Heating System with inbuilt Intelligence

Thermal treatment is vital processing step in any kind of product processing systems across various industries such as Pharma, Food, Chemical, Fertilizers, Coating, Paint, Ceramic, Electronics and many more. Application of  heating system  such as  heating, drying, sterilization, coating, pasteurization, blanching, mixing  and many more; all requires very preciously controlled heating for quality production. But as we all know, every material put under processing may or may not have the same level of moisture or may not require same temperature for processing though being the same type if material also manually adjusting the heating temperature or heating time is also not feasible; Practically! We as  Kerone , have always advocated that the new age thermal treatment systems must be capable of making efficient decision to offer best possible correction based of the input material type its contents and behavior while under processing. This shift is paradigm in industrial thermal trea

Type of Heat Transfer Mechanisms

Heat transfer mechanisms plays vital role in functioning of any heater or making decision about best suitable  heating system  for your application. Majorly heat transferring is classified in 3 categories: Convection Conduction Radiation Convection: Convection is categorized as transfer of heat by moving masses of matter, as by retreats and movements of gasses or fluids, transported on by differences in width and the activity of gravity. At the point when a difference in width happens, the mass of the precise unit volume changes carrying about a change in weight. At the point when air is heated, its thickness changes in that its form gets to be less every unit volume. When air cooperates with a hot surface, it heats and becomes lighter. Because of the change in mass, the heated, lighter air climbs up. Very simple form of heat transfer by convection is the old potbellied stove, or in more advanced times, the finned tube utilized as a part of private high temp water heating

Understanding Fluidized Bed Dryers (FBD)

Many industries need to process fluidized, slurries and paste type of materials in such scenarios fluid bed dryer comes in rescue as the traditional dryers such as rotary, tunnel, conveyor, continuous tray not able to provide the desired results. FBD provide advantages such as good solids mixing, high rates of heat and mass transfer and easy material transport over others. FBD is achieved by passing gas stream from the bottom of a bed of particle to be dried, at low gas velocities the bed is static and the particles rests on gas distributor plate. The fluidizing gas passes through the distributor and it is uniformly distributed across the bed. FBD has upper hand when it comes to drying particle size ranging from 50 to 200 μm compared to other systems. Heat transfer in gas-FBD can be achieved by multiple ways conduction, convention or radiation based on the design and operating conditions. Designing of FBD largely depends on the rate period of the particulates. Below are the key