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Enhanced Mass Transfer During Osmotic Dehydration of High Pressure Treated Pineapple
Authors:NK RASTOGI  K NIRANJAN
Affiliation:Authors Rastogi and Niranjan are with the Dept. of Food Science &Technology, Univ. of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 226, Reading RG6 6AP, Berkshire, U.K.;Author Rastogi is on leave from the Dept. of Food Engineering, Central Food technological Research Institute, Mysore 570 013, India.
Abstract:High pressure pretreatment (100–700 MPa) was applied to enhance mass transfer rates during osmotic dehydration of pineapples and accelerate the process. Experimentally determined diffusivity values, based on a Fickian model, increased fourfold for water and twofold for sugar. Diffusivity values were correlated with pretreatment pressure by an equation of the form D=A exp(–B/P), which suggests that diffusivity would level after an initial increase in pressure. The increase was attributed to breaking-up of cells walls which facilitated the transport of water. Evidence for the extent of cell wall break-up with applied pressure was based on differential interference contrast microscopic examination of tissue. Preliminary experiments on rehydration characteristics showed high pressure pretreated samples did not absorb as much water as controls.
Keywords:high pressure  osmotic dehydration  mass transfer  diffusivity  pineapple
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