Application of radiofrequency power for non-chemical disinfestation of rough rice with full retention of quality attributes

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 647-654

  Lagunas Solar, Manuel C ^a   Pan, Zhongli ^b,c   Zeng, Nolan X ^a   Truong, Tin D ^d   Khir, Ragab ^c   Amaratunga, K S P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Univ of California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Milling quality; Non chemical disinfection; Radiofrequency power; Rough rice

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTION; PESTICIDES; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL LOAD;

MILLING QUALITY; NON-CHEMICAL DISINFECTION; RADIOFREQUENCY POWER; ROUGH RICE;

CROPS;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; RHYZOPERTHA DOMINICA; SITOTROGA CEREALELLA;

EID: 35649016712     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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