Abstract
ABSTRACT The paper presents results of water sorption tests of dried blood flour carried out tinder laboratory conditions and mathematical analyses of sorption isotherms obtained. Moisture equilibrium data were investigated at air temperatures in the range of 20–50°C and water activity ranging from 0 4 to 0 99. The experimental procedure used was a gravimetric dynamic method with continuous registration of sample weight changes. Sorption capacity decreases as temperature increases. Rehydration of the dried material results in hysteresis but this phenomenon was small. Four models of equilibrium moisture content/equilibrium relative air humidity (Chung—Pfost. Halsey. Henderson, and Oswin) were evaluated for their ability to fit data for the samples of dried blood. The modified Henderson equation was a good model for moisture adsorption and desorption of dried blood flour
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