Experimental Study and Modelling of Moisture Sorption Isotherms of Salted Largehead Hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) at 25 and 35°C

2014 ◽  
Vol 1033-1034 ◽  
pp. 681-689
Author(s):  
Zhong Yang Ren ◽  
Yan Yan Wu ◽  
Zhen Hua Duan ◽  
Lai Hao Li ◽  
Xian Qing Yang

The moisture sorption characteristics of salted largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) were investigated within the limits of water activity (0.11-0.98) at 25 and 35°C using a self-made instrument for the measurement of the equilibrium moisture content according to the static gravimetric method. The shape of the sorption isotherms was sigmoidal. The moisture sorption isotherms exhibited significant hysteresis. The hysteresis of salted fish may be due to the salt permeating into the body of the fish as a result of desorption and adsorption processes. Seventeen mathematical models were fit to the experimental data for the equilibrium moisture content at different water activity levels. The Ferro-Fontan equation provided the best fit for the experimental data of the equilibrium moisture content among the 17 models assessed for the sorption isotherms at 25 and 35°C. The net isosteric heats of sorption decreased gradually with increases in moisture content. The isosteric heats of sorption ranged from 44.59 kJ/mol to 45.61 kJ/mol between the moisture contents of 22.22% and 43.25% for salted largehead hairtail.

Author(s):  
Olusegun J Oyelade

Insights into the relationship between the air relative humidity (water activity (aw)) and equilibrium moisture content of food materials is essential to maintain good keeping quality and optimize process operation. The adsorption isotherms for cassava flour (lafun) were investigated with the static gravimetric method. Concentrated acid (H2SO4) solutions were used to vary the micro-climate in the study and presented in an easy-to-use template-like format over the range of temperature (27- 40oC) and aw (0.10-0.80) usually experienced in the tropical environment. The experimental data were compared with five widely recommended models in the literature for food sorption isotherms (GAB, modified GAB, modified Oswin, modified Henderson & modified Chung-Pfost). The moisture sorption isotherms were sigmoidal in shape and were influenced by temperature. The modified Oswin model was found to be most adequate whilst the modified GAB appears not suitable to model the adsorption isotherms for lafun.


Author(s):  
Zhao Yang ◽  
Enlong Zhu ◽  
Zongsheng Zhu

Abstract Moisture sorption isotherms of green soybean seeds were determined by static gravimetric method and water activity ranging from 0.11to 0.94 at 20, 30 and 40°C. The optimal sorption model of green soybean was determined by using nonlinear regression method. Modified BET multilayer sorption theory model parameters at different temperatures were calculated, isosteric sorption heat was derived by the water activity sorption isosteric model. Results indicated that sorption isotherms were belong to type III behaviour, a notable hysteresis effect was observed, Green soybean monolayer saturated sorption capacity was greater in desorption process than that of adsorption. The monolayer saturated sorption capacity decreased with increasing temperature, while the number of multilayer had a reverse trend with the monolayer saturated sorption capacity, the optimal sorption isotherm model for green soybean is Halsey model, The thermodynamic parameters including net isosteric heat of adsorption and desorption calculated at 40°C were 105.2-1865.4 kJ/kg and 111.62-1939.0 kJ/kg with equilibrium moisture content between 5% and 32% (d.b.), respectively. The net isosteric heat of sorption decreased with increasing equilibrium moisture content.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-755
Author(s):  
Hamid Tavakolipour ◽  
Mohsen Mokhtarian

Abstract In this study, two intelligent tools of genetic algorithm (GA) and artificial neural network (ANN) were employed to use experimental data to predict equilibrium moisture content (EMC) of Persian pistachio powder. Initially the moisture sorption isotherms of pistachio powder were determined by gravimetric method at different temperatures (15, 25, 35 and 40°C) and constant relative humidity’s (0.11, 0.23, 0.36, 0.49, 0.62, 0.75 and 0.88 aw values) and then traditional mathematical models including BET, Iglesias and Chirife, GAB, Caurie and Freundlich were used to check the fitness of experimental data. Later the experimental data were compared with similar data obtained from GA and ANN models. The overall results showed that the Caurie model had high performance to predict EMC and revealed that GA model had greater accuracy to predict EMC of pistachio powder with very high R2 values (equal to 0.9996).


2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (No. 3) ◽  
pp. 86-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.D. Menkov ◽  
D.I. Gelyazkov

The equilibrium moisture contents were determined for millet seeds of two cultivars using the gravimetric static method at 10, 25 and 40°C over a range of relative humidities from 0.112 to 0.868. The sorption capacity of the seeds decreased with an increase in temperature at constant relative humidity. The hysteresis effect is not distinctly expressed but statistically significant. The differences between equilibrium moisture contents of the cultivars are small. Four models were applied for analyzing the experimental data using the following equations: modified Chung-Pfost, modified Halsey, modified Oswin, and modified Henderson. The modified Chung-Pfost model was found to be the most suitable for describing the relationship between equilibrium moisture content, relative humidity and temperature.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tochukwu Samuel ◽  
J. Obeta Ugwuanyi

Garri is a creamy white or yellow starchy grit produced by roasting to gelatinization and dryness of peeled, washed, mashed, and fermented dewatered cassava roots. It is the most important product of cassava in West and Central Africa. Mean moisture content of yellow and white garri was 11.11% and 10.81% within 24 hrs of sampling from the market, increasing to 17.27% and 16.14%, respectively, following 3 months of storage at room temperature. The water activity of samples varied from initial 0.587 to 0.934 following storage. Moisture sorption isotherms, determined by static gravimetric techniques at 20° and 30°C, showed temperature dependent BET Sigmoidal type II behaviour typical of carbohydrate rich foods but modulated very slightly by the content of palm oil. Equilibrium moisture content decreased with increase in temperature at constant water activity. A total of 10 fungal species belonging to the generaMucor,Penicillium,Cephalosporium,Aspergillus,Scopulariopsis,Rhizopus, and Paecilomyceswere identified, with range increasing with water activity of samples.


Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1658
Author(s):  
Mina Habibiasr ◽  
Mohd Noriznan Mokhtar ◽  
Mohd Nordin Ibrahim ◽  
Khairul Faezah Md Yunos ◽  
Nuzul Amri Ibrahim

A study on the effect of the physical properties and moisture sorption isotherm of palm kernels constitutes the critical criteria in evaluating the drying performance. The drying was evaluated as a function of moisture content (MC) in the range of 0.31–0.02 kg/kg (d.b.). Whereas, the equilibrium moisture content (EMC) of palm kernels (whole kernel and ground kernel) was determined experimentally using the standard gravimetric method at different temperatures (50 °C to 80 °C), over a range of relative humidity (RH) from 10% to 81%. Palm kernel length, width, and thickness decrease from 16.08 ± 2.09 mm to 14.17 ± 2.30 mm, 12.06 ± 1.40 mm to 11.24 ± 1.08 mm, and 10.01 ± 1.27 mm to 9.18 ± 1.04 mm, respectively, when MC decreased. Bulk density, surface area, and specific surface area decreased as the MC decreased, while porosity and true density were increased. EMC of palm kernels (whole kernel and ground kernel) decreased with an increase in temperature at constant RH. Modified Oswin and modified Halsey models were found to be the best for predicting desorption moisture isotherms for whole and ground palm kernel, respectively. Therefore, the study of the effect of drying on physical aspects as well as moisture sorption isotherms is important to further analyze the drying performance of Tenera palm kernel (e.g., equipment design and energy requirement).


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamran Maleki Majd ◽  
Seyed H. Karparvarfard ◽  
Asgar Farahnaky ◽  
Sara Ansari

Abstract In this study the moisture sorption isotherm of grape seed was determined by using a static gravimetric method at 35-65°C and 0.108-0.821 water activity range. The sorption isotherms were found to be typical sigmoid shape of most food materials. Five models including the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (2-parameter), Guggenheim, Anderson and De Boer (3-parameter), Oswin (2-parameter), Ferro-Fontan (3-parameter) and Peleg (4-parameter) models were considered to fit the experimental data. The Ferro- Fontan and Peleg equations (at three temperatures 35, 45, 65°C) having R2 greater than 0.97 and lower values of standard error of estimate and deviation modulus gave the best fit of the experimental data throughout the entire range of water activity. The net isosteric heat of sorption, calculated by Calusius-Clapeyron equation on experimental data, was found to be a polynomial and exponential function of equilibrium moisture content within the temperature range investigated.


Author(s):  
Maria Carolina Soares Pereira ◽  
Jiří Štencl ◽  
Bohumíra Janštová ◽  
Václav Vlášek

Moisture sorption isotherms of Dutch type semi-hard cheese edge in the temperature range of 10–25 ºC and water activity (Aw) from 0.11 to 0.98 were determined using manometric method. The sorption curves had a sigmoid shape. The equilibrium moisture content (EMC) of cheese samples increased with an increase in Aw at a constant temperature both for water adsorption and desorption. An increase in temperature caused an increase in Aw for the same moisture content (MC) and, if Aw was kept constant, an increase in temperature caused a decrease in the amount of absorbed water. Critical values of equilibrium moisture content, corresponding to the Aw = 0.6, were between 11 % MC (w.b.) and 17 % MC (w.b.) both for moisture adsorption and desorption. Values of sorption heat were calculated from moisture sorption isotherms by applying the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. Values of the heat of desorption are higher than those of adsorption and the difference increases with the MC decrease. Heat of sorption decreased from 48.5 kJ/mol (~5.5 % MC w.b.) to the values approaching the heat of vaporization of pure water, free MC. The critical value for free water evaporation is about w = 27 % (w.b.) for the range of temperature 10–25 ºC.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelkader Lamharrar ◽  
Ali Idlimam ◽  
Mohammed Kouhila ◽  
Lamya Lahnine ◽  
Hind Mouhanni

Urtica dioica is a Moroccon endemic plant of used for its virtues in traditional medicine. Thus, it is necessary to study the effect of preservation processes on the storage conditions of the plant. The static gravimetric method was used to determine sorption isotherms of Urtica dioica leaves at three temperatures (40, 50 and 60 °C) and in the range of water activity ( w a ) ranging from 0.0572 to 0.898. Six mathematical models were used to fit the experimental data. The Enderby and Peleg models were found to be the most suitable for describing the sorption curves. The optimal water activity for conservation of Urtica dioica leaves was determined. Isosteric heats of desorption and adsorption were calculated by applying the Clausius- Clapeyron equation to the sorption isotherms at different temperatures; it decreased with increasing moisture content. A linear relation exists between the enthalpy and entropy of the sorption reaction.


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