5. Texturing operations
Many industrial processes now increasingly involve texturing and restructuring operations to modify physical properties, induce new functional behaviors and, sometimes, lead to specific intensification of transfer phenomena. The field of application of these operations is thus much broader.
More specifically, the structure of many natural materials, mainly biological, plays an essential role in the kinetics and progress of dehydration operations.
Thus, during many types of dewatering operations, the compactness of the solid matrix continues to increase as a result of the shrinkage phenomenon. Indeed, as long as temperature and moisture content are high enough, the rheological behavior is of the rubbery type, and the glass transition T g (and therefore the rigidified behavior) often only occurs...
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Bibliography
Websites
• ABCAR DIC Process http://www.abcar-dic.com
• University of La Rochelle – Digital environment http://www.univ-lr.fr/lasie
• SwellDried, the purity of fruit and vegetables http://www.swelldried.com
...Events
• Journées Aliments et Santé, the biennial international meeting place for nutrition and health professionals http://www.aliments-sante.fr
Patents
ALLAF (K.), LOUKA (N.), BOUVIER (J.M.), PARENT (F.) and FORGET (M.). – Method for processing phytogenic materials to change their texture, installation for the achievement of such a process, and resulting materials. French Patent, published under the n F 2708419 on 2 October 1995.
Europe, USA, Brazil, and Japan, Patent published on 16 February 1995, n WO95/04466.
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• DIC equipment manufacturers: ABCAR-DIC Process SAS http://www.abcar-dic.com
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• LaSIE (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur pour l'Environnement – Université de La Rochelle)
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