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Pomegranate fruit mass modeling with some physical properties

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Agricultural products Process Engineering.

Abstract

Physical properties are most important in the design of equipment and processing systems. Among the physical properties, dimensions, mass, volume, surface area and projected area are the most important parameters in processing systems. Fruit grading according to weight offers appropriate packing patterns and lowers handling and packing expenses. In this study, physical properties of pomegranate were determined and mass modeling with some physical properties was applied based on: (1) single or multivariate regressions of pomegranate dimensions, (2) single variable regression of surface area, and single or multivariate regression of projected area and (3) estimating mass of pomegranate based on its volume. According to the results, the major diameter (a) and first projected area (Ap1) of pomegranate mass modeling are the most appropriate models in the first and second classifications, respectively. In the third classification, mass modeling based on measured volume (V) yielded the highest R2 value (R2 = 0.998), while assumed oblate spheroid shape (Vosp) and ellipsoid shape (Vellip) yielded R2 values of 0.942 and 0.918, respectively. From an economic perspective, the major diameter's linear relationship with pomegranate mass M=8.7004a – 470.33, R2=0.932 was used to justify an appropriate sizing and grading system.

DOI

10.21608/azeng.2023.248252.1005

Keywords

pomegranate, mass modeling, Physical properties, Sizing and grading

Authors

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E.

Last Name

Shousha

MiddleName

R.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Products Process Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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shoushsayed@gmail.com

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cairo

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First Name

S.

Last Name

Tayel

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A.

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Department of Agricultural Products Process Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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First Name

T.

Last Name

Ghanem

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H.

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Department of Agricultural Products Process Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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6

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1

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45071

Issue Date

2024-01-01

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2023-11-12

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2024-01-01

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2805-2765

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2805-2803

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2,115

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Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Engineering

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https://azeng.journals.ekb.eg/

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Pomegranate fruit mass modeling with some physical properties

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Created At

28 Dec 2024