Drying is the most critical unit operation in coconut oil and desiccated coconut industry. Different technologies are used for drying coconut chips and hot air drying is the most popular method. Microwave (MW) drying has ...

Karawila (Momordica charantia), also known as bitter gourd, is widely used as a food and a medicine in Asian countries. Representative samples of the seeds of the most abundant cultivar (MC43) in Sri Lanka were collected. ...

A small scale, forced convection, solar-biomass hybrid dryer for drying copra has been designed, fabricated and tested for drying copra. The dryer is consisted with a solar air heater, a biomass-stove heat exchanger and ...

An industrial scale waste gas treatment system was designed and constructed at a Tobacco Processing Factory. The treatment system consisted of three units namely: condenser, scrubber and bio fdter, the latter acting as the ...

Rolling oil is used in packaging industry for cooling and lubricating rolling sheets during production process. However, the properties of the rolling oil changes with time and that becomes unsuitable for the use. This ...

Drying characteristic of Orthodox broken type tea was examined using a laboratory-scale fluid bed tea dryer. Drying experiments were carried out at loading of 29 kg/m2 and moisture content of tea was reduced from 106% to ...

Coconut (Cocos nucifera L) water is the main constituent in the waste water of desiccated coconut industry. The high COD values of coconut water, 40000 mg/ Z, is the main reason for having significantly high COD levels, ...

Air drying long oil alkyd resins of 65% oil length were synthesized from a blend of soya bean (Glycine max) oil and karawila (Momordica charantia) seed oil. Different proportions of karawila seed oil (w/w% 10, 20, 30, ...

The present studies examine the performance of cementitious capillary crystalline waterproofing coating(CCCW) with Saltwater. As Sri Lanka is a developing country, many underground constructions are being built in ...

Multi bed drying characteristics of copra were tested using a hybrid dryer with 3 beds arranged vertically in a drying chamber of 600 x .600 x 1350 mm. Hot air was passed through the chamber m sequential mode .from bottom ...