Abstract

Andrei Lisitsyn¹, Oksana Kuznetsova², Mikhail Minaev²  and Alexander Prosekov²

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/320212

Investigations in the present work were directed towards the study of the dehydration temperature influence on the mass fraction of moisture in lactulose. The moisture mass fraction index is the most important to estimate the quality of primary, semi-finished and finished products. Resulting from this, investigations have been directed onto the study of the dehydration temperature influence on the mass fraction of moisture in the solution. A technology of getting dry lactulose by way of spray dehydration has been developed. It has been proved that while the temperature of dehydrating a lactulose solution with the mass fraction of 50% rises, the moisture content in the product decreases. The lactulose powder quality was estimated by such factors as mass fraction of moisture, particle size, solubility index and hydroscopicity, as these factors produce the most influence upon consumer properties of the products. The data received show growth of the lactulose solubility index with the particle size increase. This is evidently connected with the fact that a big size of the particles makes interaction between molecules of water and lactulose more difficult as well as forming donor and acceptor (hydrogen) bonds, and consequently the solution process.

lactulose; solubility; powder quality

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