Lecturer at Basrah University Wins World Championship in Agricultural Sciences Field - Essential Oils

Dr. Asaad Rehman Saied, a lecturer at Department of Food Science wins the world championship in the field of agricultural sciences - essential oils by participation with his research entitled (A practical study for the new design of essential oils apparatus using ohmic heating).

The lecturer at Department of Food Science, Abdul Rahman Hassan Lafta, mentioned that the World Championship is a global organization that organizes annual prizes for the winning researches from all countries of the world according to their specialization.

Also, he adds that the winning research included designing a new device for extracting essential oils by ohmic heating and studying its thermal performance and mathematical modeling of extraction and analyzing oils components by using GC-Ms, and the consumption of electrical energy in this device is very little compared to the traditional way and energy efficiency and converted to high temperature.