Title
Prediction of water activity in sugar solutions using models of group contribution and equation of state
Date Issued
01 January 2000
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
Abstract
Data of water activity in sugar solutions (of sucrose, glucose, fructose, and maltose) were obtained experimentally utilizing a dew point device (Aqua-Lab CX-2) at temperatures of 25, 30, and 35°C, and atmospheric pressure. The thermodynamic models of group contribution (UNIFAC, ASOG) and of equations of state (EOS PR/Classic; EOS PR/SV) were used for modeling and predicting water activity in these solutions. A single set of parameters was obtained for the temperatures tested by fitting the UNIFAC and ASOG models to the experimental data; equations of state were used to determine binary interaction parameters for water-sucrose, water-glucose, water-fructose, and water-maltose. Water activity was predicted for a quaternary mixture (sucrose, glucose, fructose and water), with average relative deviations of 0.5% and 1.3% for the EOS PR/SV and EOS PR/Classic, respectively. For the group contribution methods, the deviations were 0.48% for the ASOG and 0.52% for the UNIFAC.
Start page
645
End page
653
Volume
33
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0033772049
Source
Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan
ISSN of the container
00219592
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