High kernel moisture content at harvest severely restricts mechanical kernel harvesting in China, necessitating an in-depth understanding of the dynamic coordination between kernel filling and dehydration, alongside robust and practical prediction mo...
A study on the effect of the physical properties and moisture sorption isotherm of palm kernels constitutes the critical criteria in evaluating the drying performance. The drying was evaluated as a function of moisture content (MC) in the range of 0....
Detecting the moisture content of stored maize kernels is critical for minimizing post-harvest losses. To measure the moisture content of maize kernels under low-temperature conditions, a small-strip transmission line device was employed to construct...
To investigate the pore structure distribution and the coupled heat and moisture transfer during the drying process of the grains, this study focuses on fixed-bed corn drying with varying levels of broken kernel rate. A model of internal flow and con...
A fast and effective determination method of different species of vegetable seeds oil is vital in the plant oil industry. The near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) method was developed in this study to analyze the oil and moisture contents of...
Moisture content is an important factor in corn breeding and cultivation. A corn breed with low moisture at harvest is beneficial for mechanical operations, reduces drying and storage costs after harvesting and, thus, reduces energy consumption. Nond...
Compression tests are widely used to characterize cereal kernels, yet the loading rate is often treated as a secondary methodological factor, despite the fact that the ASAE S368.4 procedure recommends a low crosshead speed, whereas industrial size-re...
This study aimed to characterize the stress relaxation of wheat kernels of different hardness and varying moisture contents using generalized Maxwell models with three, five, and seven elements. Single-kernel stress relaxation tests were conducted un...
Kernel breakage and fungi-induced hot spots can easily lead to potential safety hazards in maize storage. The objective of this study was to focus on the formation and development of hot spots in maize bulk with two different broken kernels contents...
Knowledge of physical and mechanical properties of cereal grains is important for designing handling and processing equipment. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on the influence of moisture content on the physical-mechanical properties as r...
Resistance breeding is the most economic method to control northern corn leaf blight (NCLB). The objectives of these studies were: To assess effects of dominant genes (Ht(s)), polygene (PG), and combinations on percent leaf area affected (PLAA), yiel...
This work studied the effect of external conditions on the drying kinetics of a thin layer of corn during convective drying. The density and the specific volume of the corn grain were reported and the desorption isotherms of the corn were determined...
Dehydration of maize grains in the field can reduce costs associated with drying after harvest. A delayed harvest approach after physiological maturity, in which plants stand in the field to allow the stems to dry, has been widely adopted in maize pr...
In order to achieve a high-quality product, sweet corn should be harvested at the optimal stage of maturity. The taste of sweet corn depends largely on the kernel moisture (KM) and total sugars (TS) content while its health properties are attributed...
Background/Objectives: Kernel dehydration is an important agronomic trait influencing mechanical harvesting efficiency, post-harvest drying costs, and grain storage quality in maize (Zea mays L.). Although the genetic and molecular basis of whole-ker...
Antecedent moisture conditions are essential in explaining differences in the translation of flood-producing precipitation to floods. This study proposes an empirical residual-oriented antecedent precipitation index (RAPI) to estimate and further lin...
Flowering-stage heat and water limitation are important environmental constraints for summer maize, but their co-occurrence and remotely sensed expression vary with the phenological timing and the indicators used. We divided the Huang–Huai&ndas...
Anthropogenic activities are profoundly altering the terrestrial water cycle, yet a comprehensive understanding of their impact on surface soil moisture (SSM) at regional scales remains limited. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of...
The viscoelastic properties of cereal kernels are strongly related to their quality, which can be applied to the development of a more selective and objective classification process. In this study, the association between the biophysical and viscoela...
The objective of this work is to determine the influence of blanching time on moisture content, sugars, protein, and processing recovery (degree of cut corn) of sweet corn kernels. Sweetcorn cobs of the Jubilee variety were blanched in the water at t...
Situated at middle-to-high latitudes with limited thermal resources, Northeast China is the primary maize-producing region in China. It is also one of the regions most significantly impacted by climate change. Given the persistent impact of climate c...
A self-developed microwave moisture detection system (ranged from 2.00 GHz to 10.00 GHz) based on multi-frequency sweep technology was used to quickly determine the moisture content of tea seed kernels without breaking the shells. A multi-frequency e...
Dielectric properties of materials influence the interaction of electromagnetic fields with and are therefore important in designing effective dielectric heating processes. We investigated the dielectric properties (DPs) of pecan kernels between 10 a...
Corn is an important economic and food crop, and the corn threshing process is an important link in the processing of corn, but the damage rate in the threshing process has always been a problem, causing difficulties in subsequent processing and stor...
Under moderate climatic conditions, deoxynivalenol (DON) contamination occurs frequently on cereals. Detoxification measures are required to avoid adverse effects on farm animals. In the present study, a wet preservation method with sodium sulfite (N...
The aim of the study was to examine the Peleg and Normand model to characterize the overall stress relaxation behavior of wheat kernel at varying load conditions. The relaxation experiments were made with the help of the universal testing machine, Zw...
Improving grain size-reduction efficiency requires settings adapted to raw-material properties. This study examined how moisture, crosshead speed, imposed displacement, cultivar, and wheat quality group affect individual-kernel compression. Four cult...
Low moisture content (MC) and high dehydration rate (DR) at physiological maturity affect grain mechanical harvest, transport, and storage. In this study, we used an association panel composed of 241 maize inbred lines to analyze ear moisture changes...
The conditioning of moisture content is an effective way to improve walnut-crushing performance. In this study, firstly, walnuts with different moisture contents were used to conduct the crushing experiments. The distributions of fragment sizes of sh...
The purpose of this study is to explore how corn varieties and moisture content affect the mechanical properties of corn with high moisture content (26.0~36.4%). The mechanical properties of corn that affect corn threshing quality are determined by e...
A novel approach to producing corn stover biomass feedstock has been investigated. In this approach, corn grain and stover are co-harvested at moisture contents much less than typical corn silage. The grain and stover are conserved together by anaero...
Under high-moisture conditions, maize threshing faces a conflict between effective kernel detachment and mechanical damage due to changes in kernel properties, kernel–cob connections, and structural constraints within the ear. This review exami...
The TU Wien Soil Moisture Retrieval (TUW SMR) approach is used to produce several operational soil moisture products from the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on the Metop series of satellites as part of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on S...
Establishing an accurate high-moisture corn ear fragmentation model using the Discrete Element Method is crucial for studying the processing and fragmentation of high-moisture corn ears. This study focuses on high-moisture corn ears during the early...
To address the high kernel breakage rate and incomplete threshing of high-moisture maize ears, a low-damage core-splitting–threshing method was proposed, and a maize-ear core-splitting device based on the internal expansion action of a splittin...
Depending on the temperature regime used during roasting, the biochemical and sensory characteristics of macadamia nuts can change. ‘A4′ and ‘Beaumont’ were used as model cultivars to examine how roasting temperatures affected...
Coating, as a process in which fruits, vegetables, kernels, and nuts are covered with an edible layer, is an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic wrapping, which has been considered the most effective way to preserve them over the long ter...
This study investigated hot air-assisted radio frequency (HARF) heating for drying and roasting fresh in-shell peanuts in a single operation. In a 10 kW, 40.68 MHz HARF system with 100 °C hot air, the estimated RF output power increased with samp...
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is one of the world’s most important sources of plant-based protein, with a protein content exceeding 35–40% (dry basis), along with other essential nutritional benefits. Ideally, soybeans are field-dried to appro...
The effects of room temperature water, hot water, and steam tempering methods were investigated on sorghum kernel physical properties, milling, flour, and bread-making properties. Overall tempering condition and tempering moisture content were found...
Fresh (raw, non-dried) walnuts (kernel moisture > 17%) have unique sensory and nutritional attributes but a narrow time availability due to their rapid deterioration during storage. In the present study, the storage (1 °C, 90% RH) potential of...
This study proposes a geographically weighted (GW) quantile machine learning (GWQML) framework for soil moisture (SM) prediction, integrating spatial kernel functions with quantile-based prediction and uncertainty quantification. The framework incorp...
Due to the complex shape of corn kernels and the large difference in size, in order to establish a more realistic model of corn kernels, this paper tests and analyzes two representative corn varieties planted in Northern China, and each variety is di...
To address the problems of corn harvesting in the Yellow Huaihai region with high moisture content, such as grain damage and high failure rate, a wider and taller ripple block threshing element was designed by combining the threshing principles of di...
In this study, an air heated solar collector (AHSC) dryer was designed to determine the drying characteristics of the pear. Flat pear slices of 10 mm thickness were used in the experiments. The pears were dried both in the AHSC dryer and under the su...
Moisture content is a critical variable for the harvesting, processing, storing and marketing of cereal grains, oilseeds and legumes. Efficient and accurate determination of grain moisture content even with advanced nondestructive techniques, remains...
In order to optimize the convective drying process parameters of peanuts and to provide a theoretical basis for the scientific use of energy in the drying process, this study took single-particle peanuts as the research object and analyzed the heat a...
To provide necessary information for further pasteurization experiments and computer simulations based on radio frequency (RF) and microwave (MW) energy, dielectric and thermal properties of walnut components were measured at frequencies between 10 a...
One of the main obstacles to finding cultivars with consistent performance across locations and years is the genotype × environment (GE) interaction effect. A new approach to stability analysis for qualitative characteristics in maize was condu...
Pulsed electric fields (PEF) have been reported to increase the total oil extraction yield (OEYTOTAL) of fresh pecan nuts maintaining oil characteristics and increasing phenolic compounds in the remaining by-product. However, there is no information...
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