Drying characteristics of medicinal plants

The special active agent content makes suitable herbals for healing and health preservation. The key element in herbs and spices processing is drying. The required low moisture content of medicinal plants to storage can be achieved only by applying drying equipment at Hungarian climatic conditions....

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Published inInternational review of applied sciences and engineering (Online) Vol. 8; no. 1; p. 83
Main Authors Poós, T, Varju, E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Budapest Akademiai Kiado Zrt 01.06.2017
Subjects
Climatology
Desiccants
Emergency vehicles
Flowering
Healing
Herbal medicine
Herbs
Moisture content
Spices
Weather
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Summary:The special active agent content makes suitable herbals for healing and health preservation. The key element in herbs and spices processing is drying. The required low moisture content of medicinal plants to storage can be achieved only by applying drying equipment at Hungarian climatic conditions. The extent of the dryer capacity defines the processing capacity of the factory. During the daily operation can easily occur bottleneck, when large amount of herbs are transported to the factory, which is above the drying capacity — various plants unexpected simultaneous flowering, weather emergency, extraordinary collecting, etc. The aim of the manuscript is to determinate operational data at herbs pre-drying with low temperature air by measurements. This work defines the drying rate, the volume decrease and the drying air velocity for various medicinal plants at drying with ambient air.
ISSN:2062-0810
2063-4269
DOI:10.1556/1848.2017.8.1.12