Claim · model-written summary
Mixing Cheniere rough rice with silica gel at 3:1 dried it from 17.8% to 12.5% moisture within 12 h.
- Taxon
- rough ricee0
- Material
- Chenieree1
- Treatment
- 3:1 rough rice to silica gele0
- Outcome
- moisture contente1
- Direction
- drye0
- Value
- 12.5%e0
- Qualifier
- within 12 he0
Not reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSetting
Verbatim
e0“an intimate mixture of 3:1 rough rice to silica gel was sufficient to dry these rice lots to 12.5% and 14.3% within 12 h, respectively”
e1“Two cultivars of long-grain rough rice, ‘Cheniere’ and ‘Wells’ with harvest moisture contents of 17.8% and 22.0%, respectively”
Title
Drying of post-harvest rough rice with silica gel: A preliminary investigation
Stephen O'Brien; Terry Siebenmorgen Discovery The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences 2006. doi:10.54119/discovery.fhxo1687
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Intervention effect Mixing Wells rough rice with silica gel at 3:1 dried it from 22.0% to 14.3% moisture within 12 h.
- Intervention effect Head rice yields of desiccant-dried rice showed no considerable differences from the control.
- Observation Rough-rice drying curves for all rough rice-to-silica gel mixtures followed exponential relationships.