The purpose of this research is to develop a hot air dryer using waste heat from a200 liter kiln for drying bananas and to investigate its drying performance. The main parts of the dryer consist of the drying chamber that has dimensions 0.71x0.83x.091 m3 the air circulation system and a heat exchanger which receives waste heat from the exhaust tube and kiln surface. The dryer was developed by designing a drying chamber on the top of a 200 liter kiln to reduce heat lost in the structure and an exhaust gas heat exchanger was developed using groups of copper tubes for increasing then heat transferred to the air. The drying performances were analyzed by measuring specific drying rates and specific energy consumption. Experiments were performed under different temperatures of 60 70 and 80℃ And at a constant velocity of 1.8 ms-1. Eucalyptus was selected as the heat source. Thirty kg of peeled bananas were prepared at an initial moisture content of 241.19±31.50% dry basis and were dried until to final moisture content of 48.47±10.46% dry basis. All experiments were carried out in duplicate. For temperatures of 60 70 and 80 ℃ the ave age specific drying rates were 0.085±0.0004 0.114±0.0009 and 0.1277±0.010 kg water h-1kesolid-1 and the average specific energy consumptions were 1.42±0.055 1.21±0.355 and 1.04±0.074 MJ/kg water respectively. Some dried bananas had burned at a temperature of 80℃ so at temperature of 70 ℃ was the optimal condition in this experiment. This produced good color a high specific drying rate and low specific energy consumption.

This research aims to study the physical and chemical properties of Cha-nee durian rind powder and using durian rind powder to replace wheat flour in brownie cakes at 1020 and 30% (w/w). Texture profile chemical composition and sensory evaluation of brownie cakes were analyzed. The results showed that durian rind powder contained 50% of dietary fiber. Brownie cake with durian rind powder showed significant decreasing of lightness (L*) and hardness while green-red component (a*) blue-yellow component (b*) toughness and cohesiveness values were significantly higher than the control sample (p<0.05). Proximate analysis of the products showed that brownie cake with durian rind powder had dietary fiber higher than control brownie cake sample significantly. At 30% replacing of durian rind powder brownie cake showed 18.2% increasing of dietary fiber as compared with the control sample. The acceptance score including appearance color odor flavor texture and overall scores of all samples in this study were not significant different. Results indicate that 30% of durian rind powder replacing wheat flour is appropriate for making brownie cake. Brownie cake with durian rind powder could be an alternative for food choice of healthy bakery product which are lower calorie (123.73 kcal per serving) and high amount of dietary fiber (6.37 g per serving). Moreover durian rind powder can be used as a food ingredient and source of dietary fiber in other food recipes for further study.

The objectives of this research were to study the effect of the substitution of sinin rice flour to wheat flour in the crust of the flaky Chinese pastry (Kha-Nom Pia Kularb) on the physical quality the chemical composition and the consumer acceptance of the developed product. The ratios of sinin rice flour substituted for wheat flour (w/w) at 0:100 (control) 10:90 20:80 30:70 and 40:60 were studied. The results showed that increasing substitution levels caused darker purple lower cohesiveness and more difficult for shaping. Additional the higher level of substitution the more decreased of product’s size specific volume and lightness (L*) of crust and filling. According to the texture profile analysis when the ratio of sinin rice flour in the product increased the hardness springiness and cohesiveness of the product decreased while the chewiness increased. Sensory quality evaluated with 9-point hedonic scale by 55 panelists. The crust of product which was formulated using a ratio of sinin rice flour: wheat flour at 20:80 had liking score higher than the others with moderate liking score. Analysis of chemical compositions (100 g product) showed that the contents of moisture protein fat ash carbohydrate and dietary fiber as 16.37 7.09 26.30 0.62 49.62 and 2.27 g respectively. The total calorie was calculated as 463..54 Kcal/100 g. Furthermore this product provided anthocyanin 6.5 mg/100g (dry basis). Moreover consumer acceptance test with 120 consumers revealed that the overall liking of this product was like highly and 98.0% of consumers accept it besides 96.7% of them decided to buy it.

Sweet tamarind is a unique and economic plant of Phetchaboon province and it has already been geographical indication (GI) registered. One of its main problems is fungal degeneration which cannot be physically visible. This causes the consumer’s uncertainty on its quality especially sweet tamarind from small communities. This led to the study on the use of household heat to reduce fungal degeneration by steaming at 100oc for 50 60 70 and 80 minutes and drying in the hot air oven at 70 oc for 3 hours. Lt was found that increasing the heat resulted in darkening the sweet tamarind color and heightening up its moisture content (p≤0.05) Drying temperature at 60 70 and 80oc revealed the higher the heat the shorter the drying time and the sweet tamarind content was darker. In addition drying significantly decreased the moisture and preference score of sweet tamarind (p≤0.05). The storage of sweet tamarind in a significant increase in the moisture of the sweet tamarind shell (p≤0.05) and could preserve the tamarind for at least 12 weeks without the deterioration from the fungus.

This research aimed to study powe generation from heat loss strove by thermoelectric generator unit. As cooking with a gas stove can cause heat loss between the stove and the cookware this heat loss from gas stove can be converted into the electricity. For the experiment the researcher used a gas stove model KB5 installed with thermoelectric plate model TEG1-241-1.4-1.2 connected in a series to the power of 4 modules. Then experimental conditions of the gas pressure in the gas strove were set at 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 and 0.6 kg/cm2 respectively while the amount of mixed air was constant during the experiment. The results showed that when the gas pressure was at 0.6 kg2 the temperatures of the hot side and cold side of the thermoelectric generator was equal 250.5oC and 65.5oC respectively. Lt also generated the highest electric power of 53.3 watts. The power conversion efficiency was 5.3% at 38.1 Volts with 1.4 Amperes. In addition when electric was connected to a thermoelectric generator unit with 12 VDC 7-watt LED bulb the gas pressure in the gas stove were set at 0.3 0.4 0.5 and 0.6 kg/cm2 respectively was affected by the difference between the heating temperature and the cold temperature in the range of 185o C that could lighten up LED bulb.