Determining Optimum Conditions for Sugarcane Juice Refinement by Pilot Plant Dead-end Ceramic Micro-filtration | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology | ||
| Article 7, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 351-357 PDF (115.97 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| B. Farmani* 1; J. Hesari1; M. H. Haddadekhodaparast2; S. Aharizad3 | ||
| 1Department of Food Science and Technology, Ahar Faculty of Agriculture, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| 2Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| 3Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The conditions for the refinement of clarified sugarcane juice, including temperature (50o, 60o and 70oC) and pressure (0, 0.5, 1 and 1.5 bars) by micro-filtration membrane technology were investigated. The raw sugarcane juice was initially pre-filtrated with lime and then the juice obtained (clarified juice) processed using a ceramic micro-filter mem-brane (0.2 micrometer). The characteristics investigated included brix, polarity (sucrose percent), turbidity, color and purity. The results showed that the effects of different proc-ess conditions with micro-filtration on reduction of turbidity and color were significant at probably <0.01 and probably <0.05, respectively. For other characteristics, no significant difference was observed. Finally, a temperature of 70oC and transmembrane pressure of 1.5 bar were determined as the optimum conditions for ceramic micro-filtration. Mem-brane processing at 70oC and 1.5 bars reduced the turbidity, viscosity and color of clari-fied juice 56.25%, 16.67% and 6.49%, respectively, and increased 0.87 units of purity. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Ceramic membrane; Clarification; Colorants; Sugarcane juice; Turbidity | ||
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