Effect of Physicochemical Properties of Native Starches on Cleaning in Falling Film and Plane Channel Flow Experiments

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Abstract

Reliable cleaning processes are an absolute prerequisite to ensure the production of safe foods. In particular, the cleaning of heat exchangers is a crucial process step since temperature induces the formation of strongly bound food-borne deposits. Aiming on relationships between soil-specific physicochemical properties and cleaning behavior, four native starches of different botanical origin (maize, waxy maize, potato, wheat) were selected for plane channel flow (similar to the flow regime in plate heat exchangers) and falling film cleaning experiments. In addition, their chemical composition and swelling behavior was analyzed. Different cleaning mechanisms could be observed, whereby diffusive dissolution was identified as dominant cleaning mechanism for most starch deposits in both cleaning experiment setups. The cleaning of such soils is characterized by an initial reptation time, where the cleaning fluid penetrates the soil and no cleaning occurs, followed by a period with constant cleaning rate. Since these cleaning parameters where overlapped by swelling-induced processes, a correction model was used to identify the unaffected cleaning progress. The cleaning and swelling-induced parameters were influenced by the origin of the starch as well as by temperature and sodium hydroxide concentration of the cleaning fluid. Multivariate statistics was helpful to unravel interrelationships and interdependencies between results of cleaning experiments, and compositional and physicochemical properties.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1416-1425
Number of pages10
JournalHeat transfer engineering
Volume43
Issue number15-16
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

TitleHeat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning XIII 2019
Abbreviated titleHEXFC
Conference number13
Duration2 - 7 June 2019
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationHoliday Inn Warsaw Józefów
CityWarsaw
CountryPoland

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-9338-970X/work/128167917
ORCID /0000-0002-1914-8473/work/142249458
Mendeley 877b19cb-4e84-3237-a600-b5fc45eb1189

Keywords

Keywords

  • Cleaning, Physicochemical properties, Starch

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