Water sorption of coffee solubles by frontal inverse gas chromatography: Thermodynamic considerations

Information on the sorption mechanism was obtained by investigating the thermodynamic relationships of moisture in freeze-dried coffee by frontal inverse gas chromatography. The thermodynamic parameters Delta Gs, Delta Hs and Delta Ss were calculated. The negative Delta Gs values obtained for water sorption of coffee under all conditions indicated the existence of strong hydrophilic sites in the coffee matrix. Also, the enthalpic and entropic changes showed a distinctive moisture content dependence which reflected a shift from surface sorption at restricted heterogeneous active sites to sorption at more homogeneous binding sites in the bulk phase and structural changes induced by swelling from multimolecular water that occupied the hydrophilic sites

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Main Authors: 43257 Apostolopoulos, D., 71721 Gilbert, S.G.
Format: biblioteca
Published: Mar-
Subjects:CAFE SOLUBLE, CONTENIDO DE HUMEDAD, CROMATOGRAFIA DE GASES, ANALISIS QUIMICO, COMPOSICION,
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