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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 330, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129705
Keywords
Cucumber juice; Freeze concentration; Crystallization; Optimization; Non-thermal
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- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under Collaborative Research Grant (CRG) [08G23]
- UTM Prototype Research Grant [00L26]
- Advanced Materials and Separation Technologies (AMSET)
- laboratory and Centre of Lipids Engineering and Applied Research (CLEAR)
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This study investigated the use of progressive freeze concentration (PFC) to concentrate cucumber juice while preserving its phenolic content. A new device called Multiple Probe Cryo-Concentrator (MPCC) was designed and optimized to improve the productivity of PFC. The results showed that the improved surface area of the MPCC and the excellent fluid movement provided by the shape factor and mixing power consumption led to a significant improvement in productivity. The study also found that the stirrer speed had the most significant impact on solute concentration in cucumber juice.
Progressive freeze concentration (PFC) was used to concentrate cucumber juice to preserve total phenolic content (TPC) in this work as a non-thermal process. Since the productivity of PFC is always an issue, this work aimed to carefully fabricate an ice crystallizer with quantified design characteristics and optimized for an effective cucumber juice concentration process. A new device called Multiple Probe Cryo-Concentrator (MPCC) was designed, and to quantitatively identify the PFC design characteristics, the improvement in ice crystallization surface area coupled with appropriate apparatus shape factor and mixing power consumption were first calculated. From these analyses, it was observed that the improved surface area of the MPCC has given 35.44% improvement in terms of productivity and excellent fluid movement provided by the shape factor and mixing power consumption. With the aid of central composite design (CCD), the PFC operating parameters were then optimized to obtain the most effective values of effective partition constant, K-value (0.381) and TPC increment (30.13%) using multi-response optimization. The achieved optimum conditions included operation time of 35 min, initial concentration of 6 mg/ml, coolant temperature of -10.7 degrees C and stirrer speed of 400 rpm. From the regression modelling analysis and graphical plots, it was found that the stirrer speed has the most significant impact towards solute concentration in cucumber juice. In overall, it is evident that the design characteristics of the apparatus play an important role in giving a better PFC performance. Optimizing the PFC system for better efficiency can successfully maximize the nutritional properties, simultaneously indicating its high practicality in other fruit or vegetable juice concentration.
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