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Provedor de dados: | 91
País: | Brazil
Título: | Sorption isotherms of Brazil nuts
Autores: | Botelho,Fernando M.; Boschiroli Neto,Nilso J.; Botelho,Silvia de C. C.; Oliveira,Gabriel H. H. de; Hauth,Michele R.
Data: | 2019-10-01
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Bertholletia excelsa; Moisture content; Hysteresis; Mathematical modeling.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT Knowledge of the water sorption phenomenon in Brazil nut seeds will allow proper handling of this product, especially with regard to adequate conditions for safe storage. Thus, the present study aimed to determine the sorption isotherms (desorption and adsorption) of Brazil nuts, fitting different mathematical models to the experimental data, as well as to examine the hysteresis effect. To obtain the sorption isotherms, the static method was employed at temperatures of 25, 35, 45 and 55 °C and air relative humidities varying from 10 to 80%. The psychrometric conditions of the air were acquired with the aid of acid solutions and specific saturated saline left inside desiccators with the samples. It was verified that for a given isotherm, the equilibrium moisture content of Brazil nuts increases with water activity increment. In addition, at a constant water activity, equilibrium moisture content decreases with temperature increase. The Copace, Henderson and Oswin are the models that best describe the hygroscopicity of the Brazil nut seed for both the adsorption and desorption processes. Hysteresis was more pronounced at lower temperatures and higher values of water activity. The moisture content value for storage at temperatures less than 55 °C, without the risk of fungal development, must be lower than 8.2% (d.b.).
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662019001000776
Editor: | Departamento de Engenharia Agrícola  - UFCG
Relação: | 10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v23n10p776-781
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental  v.23 n.10 2019
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess