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Feasibility of Low-Cost Kaolin–Based Ceramic Membranes for Organic Lagernaria siceraria Juice Production
- Source :
- Food and Bioprocess Technology. 13:1009-1023
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- This article addresses the technical and cost competitiveness of microfiltration and centrifugation to produce organic clarified bottle gourd juice. The microfiltration (MF) process was conducted for fresh and centrifuged juices and for transmembrane pressures ranging from 103.4 to 172.4 kPa. Pertinent flux decline was extensively analyzed to account for the extent of irreversible membrane fouling using resistances in series model, flux decline, and recovery ratios. Feed, centrifuged, and permeate juice samples were evaluated for nutritional content and physico-chemical parameters to affirm that MF of fresh juice is the best among all investigated cases. Compared with the centrifugation process, the MF process performed comparatively better in terms of cost competitiveness, juice clarity, microbial, and protein rejection. For a variation in juice production capacity of 110–10,000 L, the MF-based juice processing cost varied from 1.19 to 0.37 $/L, which accounts to 31.27–26.32% of fresh juice cost to infer upon promising performance of the low-cost ceramic membranes.
- Subjects :
- Chemistry
Process Chemistry and Technology
Microfiltration
Membrane fouling
Permeation
Pulp and paper industry
Bottle gourd
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Membrane
Cost competitiveness
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Centrifugation
Ceramic
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Food Science
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19355149 and 19355130
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Food and Bioprocess Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5d5597c15beb8da2f74b4580d0bb1c8c