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Vacuum Microwave Treatment of Potato Starch and the Resultant Modification of Properties
Author(s) -
Mollekopf Norbert,
Treppe Konrad,
Fiala Petra,
Dixit Onkar
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201000105
Subject(s) - microwave , moisture , starch , materials science , absorption (acoustics) , potato starch , microwave power , absorption of water , thermal conduction , analytical chemistry (journal) , water content , chemistry , composite material , chromatography , food science , physics , geotechnical engineering , quantum mechanics , engineering
The study focuses on the vacuum microwave treatment of low‐moisture potato starch. Typical temperature and drying profiles are presented and explained with the help of other process parameters such as sample weight, pressure, incident and absorbed microwave power. Subsequently water absorption capacity of vacuum microwave treated and conduction heated samples was investigated at 55 °C. During vacuum microwave treatment, 50 g samples were treated with incident powers of 460, 500 and 750 W at 3800 Pa for durations between 30 and 300 s. Water absorption capacity increased exponentially with the net absorbed energy but could not be functionally correlated to end temperature and incident power. During conduction heating, starch samples were treated at temperature values of 120, 130, 140, 150 and 160 °C, till constant weight. The water absorption capacity was observed to increase with increase in treatment temperature.
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