Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, Benha University, Egypt
Dr. El-Sayed G Khater working as the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, Benha University, Egypt in the department of Biosystems Engineering. He has interest in the field of Dehydration of Chamomile Flowers under Different Drying Conditions and has published articles entitled Effect of Boiling and Roasting on the Lipids Quality of Pig Meat (Longissimus dorsi muscle) Enriched at Different Concentrations of Allium sativum, Zingiber officinale, Allium cepa, Piper guineense and Ricinodendron heudelotii Powders. He is from Egypt. |
Research Article
Dehydration of Chamomile Flowers under Different Drying Conditions
Author(s): El-Sayed G Khater*, Adel H Bahnasawy and Ramy M Hamouda
The main aim of this study is to investigate the possibility of drying chamomile plants under different conditions. The obtained results indicated that the accumulated weight loss of chamomile flowers was (86.27, 84.67, 82.70, 85.04 and 86.53)% for the sun-drying system, shadow-drying system, room-drying system, solar-drying system, and oven-drying system, respectively. The moisture content of chamomile flowers decreased from (508.59 to 14.56)%, (502.77 to 15.43)%, (470.09 to 18.19)%, (537.47 to 13.45) and (444.84 to 5.46)% d.b. for sun-drying system, shadow-drying system, room-drying system, solar-drying system and oven-drying system, respectively. The highest value of equilibrium moisture content was 51.78% at 90% equilibrium relative humidity was found from the Henderson equation under room system. The lowest value of equilibrium moisture contents was 1.38% at 10% equilibrium relat.. View more»