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Screening of the aerodynamic and biophysical properties of barley malt

dc.contributor.authorGhodsvali, Alireza
dc.contributor.authorFarzaneh, Vahid
dc.contributor.authorBakhshabadi, Hamid
dc.contributor.authorZare, Zahra
dc.contributor.authorKarami, Zahra
dc.contributor.authorMokhtarian, Mohsen
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Isabel Saraiva de
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-07T15:55:54Z
dc.date.available2017-04-07T15:55:54Z
dc.date.issued2016-10
dc.description.abstractAn understanding of the aerodynamic and biophysical properties of barley malt is necessary for the appropriate design of equipment for the handling, shipping, dehydration, grading, sorting and warehousing of this strategic crop. Malting is a complex biotechnological process that includes steeping; ger-mination and finally, the dehydration of cereal grains under controlled temperature and humidity conditions. In this investigation, the biophysical properties of barley malt were predicted using two models of artificial neural networks as well as response surface methodology. Stepping time and germination time were selected as the independent variables and 1 000 kernel weight, kernel density and terminal velocity were selected as the depen-dent variables (responses). The obtained outcomes showed that the artificial neural network model, with a logarithmic sigmoid activation function, presents more precise results than the response surface model in the prediction of the aerodynamic and biophysical properties of produced barley malt. This model presented the best result with 8 nodes in the hidden layer and significant correlation coefficient values of 0.783, 0.767 and 0.991 were obtained for responses one thousand kernel weight, kernel density, and terminal velocity, respectively. The outcomes indicated that this novel technique could be successfully applied in quantitative and qualitative monitoring within the malting process.
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/intag-2016-0017
dc.identifier.issn0236-8722
dc.identifier.otherAUT: ICA01121;
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9256
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Open
dc.relation.isbasedonWOS:000389589600006
dc.subjectANN
dc.subjectRSM
dc.subjectMalting
dc.subjectBarley
dc.subjectCorrelation coefficient
dc.titleScreening of the aerodynamic and biophysical properties of barley malt
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage464
oaire.citation.issue4
oaire.citation.startPage457
oaire.citation.titleInternational Agrophysics
oaire.citation.volume30
person.familyNameFarzaneh
person.familyNameSaraiva de Carvalho
person.givenNameVahid
person.givenNameIsabel Maria Marques
person.identifier.ciencia-id1C1E-A777-D6AC
person.identifier.ciencia-id591A-3777-B036
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-0536-9291
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-8057-3404
person.identifier.scopus-author-id35995183800
rcaap.rightsopenAccess
rcaap.typearticle
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