1st Edition
Medicinal and Aromatic Crops Harvesting, Drying, and Processing
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction (Serdar Öztekin and Milan Martinov)
- Characteristics of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Production
- Mechanization of MAP Production
- Chapter 2. Harvesting (Milan Martinov and Miodrag Konstantinovic)
- Introduction
- Manual and Semimechanized Harvesting
- Mechanized Harvesting
- Transport
- Chapter 3. Drying (Milan Martinov, Serdar Öztekin, and Joachim Müller)
- Introduction
- Hot Air Drying Parameters
- Hot Air Dryers
- Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources
- Chapter 4. Mechanical Processing (Milan Martinov and Miodrag Konstantinovic)
- Introduction
- Predrying Processes
- Postdrying Processes
- Chapter 5. Extraction (Yurtsever Soysal and Serdar Öztekin)
- Introduction
- Conventional Extraction Techniques
- New Extraction Techniques
- Chapter 6. Industrial Utilization (Yurtsever Soysal and Serdar Öztekin)
- Introduction
- Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Purposes
- Food and Food Ingredients
- Herbal Tea
- Cosmetics, Perfumery, and Aromatherapy
- Pest and Disease Control
- Nonconventional Uses
- Chapter 7. Decision Making (Sait M. Say)
- Introduction
- Decision-Making Procedures
- Factors for New Enterprise Decision
- Financial Analysis
- Software for Decision Making
- Appendix. User-Friendly Software for Decision Making: FANE v. 1.0
- Start Screen
- New Project Screen (Data Entry Screen)
- General Screen
- Investment Inputs Screen
- Seasonal Inputs Screen
- Revenue/s Screen
- Decision Parameters Screen
- Results Screen
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Serdar Öztekin, PhD, has been Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Cukurova University in Adana, Turkey since 1990. His research interests are in the areas of post-harvest processing and the storage of agricultural crops. Dr. Öztekin has published five books on agricultural mechanization, has designed and built five machines for different crop processing stages, and was involved in the foundation of the Association of Agricultural Engineering in Southeastern Europe. Milan Martinov, PhD, is Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. His research interests include the development of procedures and machines for special crops, the implementation of renewable energies, and the development of rural areas. Dr. Martinov is Editor-in-Chief of the regional journal, Agri-cultural Engineering—Reports for Southeastern Europe, Associate Editor of “CIGR,” the e-journal for the World Organization of Agri-cultural Engineering and is an editorial board member for several other agricultural engineering journals.
