Hot water (74 C), Lactic acid solution (2%) and Chlorine solution (50 p.p.m.) were applied on the hind leg quarters of the buffalo carcasses in two different methods, viz., spraying and dipping for surface decontamination. Initially, the best decontamination was performed by lactic acid dip method. At 24 hours, hot water dip method was considered as effective followed by again lactic acid dip at 48 hours and 72 hours respectively. Lactic acid dip method reduced total plate count by 1.71 log c.f.u./cm2 from the initial microbial load at 0 hour, whereas the hot water dip method and Chlorine dip...

Experimental studies on gas-non-Newtonian liquid flow through a horizontal pipeline and the application of artificial neural network (ANN) are a field of study which had been researched extensively in the past few years. This book represents the empirical correlations in terms of various physical and dynamic variables of the system developed by the authors to predict two-phase frictional pressure drop and gas holdup. The Multilayer Perceptrons (MLP) trained with three different algorithms, namely: Backpropagation (BP), Scaled Conjugate gradient (SCG) and Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) had been used...