Estudo dos efeitos esterilizantes da aplicação de pulsos eletricos de alta voltagem em alimentos liquidos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

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Non-thermal food pasteurization and sterilization technologies are receiving increasing attention. The advantage is that of sterilizing contaminants in liquid foods without denaturation of some physiological compounds such as proteins and vitamins. In this research, the effects of the shape of the treatment chamber (plate-plate electrodes and coaxial) and inactivation of microrganisms (Saccharomyces cerevisiae var ellipsoideus and Lactobacillus plantarum) using a pulsed electric field (PEF) discharge suspended in orange juice and in a 0.2 g/100 cm3 NaCI solution, with the same conductivity, were studied. The suspension fluid was applied at a temperature of 26 +- 1°CT.he PEF processing conditions for both samples were 7.5 kV, 1.1 -5.8 Hz frequency. The PEF treatment of liquid samples was accomplished by continuous and circulatory systems at a flow rate of 1 and 2 ml/s throught PEF treatment chamber. The present experimental results indicate that the continuous system was inefficient in the destruction of both microganisms. The results indicate that the cell destruction by PEF using the circulatory system was efficient, yeast cells dispersed in orange juice being almost all destroyed when the plate-plate electrodes were used with 7.5 kVand frequency (1.1 -5.8 Hz). A 5 to 4 log reduction of that microrganism were observed. This value was lower than that required in the coaxial electrode. Yeast cells were more sensitive than the lactic organism in both liquid samples and that did not required in the both electrodes. No diference in color modification was observed between the control and PEF treated samples. For reducing sugars, there was a significant diference between the standard and the PEF process treated samples

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suco de laranja saccharomyces cerevisiae lactobacilo

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