Kinetics of Peach Clarified Juice Discoloration Process with an Adsorbent Resin

Abstract

This paper deals with the effects of adsorbent resin upon kinetic process of peach juice adsorption de-coloration at different temperatures ranged from 10 °C to 50 °C. The adsorption equilibrium was quantified by means of adsorption isotherms in the range from 10 °C to 50 °C. Absorbance data at 420 nm were used to plot all the isotherms, which correlated reasonable well with the Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms. Also, the efficiency of the adsorption process was studied for different resin/juice ratios at different temperatures, from which it was observed that there was a notable improvement in efficiency as the resin content increased, while the increase in temperature was not so important in the process. The adsorption kinetics was also studied at 30 °C, for relationships of 1, 2, and 3 g resin/100g juice. A kinetic adsorption— desorption model in two simultaneous steps was proposed, where the adsorption step is considered as zero order and the desorption step as first order. This allows a global expression to be obtained that fits the experimental data appropriately to this kinetic type equation. The initial adsorption rate depended on the resin/juice relationship in such a way that the higher its value, the lower this relationship was. It was also shown that the equilibrium constant showed a similar tendency, its value being superior to the unit, which indicates that the retention stage over the resin prevails over the colored product desorption stage.