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ChemEngineering, Volume 8, Issue 6

December 2024 - 24 articles

Cover Story: Sedimentation phenomena in fruit purees are crucial for the food industry and consumer product acceptance. This study aimed to correlate phase separation with underlying mechanisms. The influence of soluble solids content and temperature on peach puree flow properties was determined. Considering the puree matrix as a colloidal dispersion, the sedimentation rate, particle size, and zeta potential were analyzed. Peach purees showed pseudoplastic behavior, fitting the power law model. The flow consistency coefficient and apparent viscosity increased with concentration but decreased with temperature. Temperature had no significant effect on the flow behavior index. Low zeta potential caused sedimentation, reflected by the phase separation index, with the highest sedimentation rate being seen in samples with the lowest sucrose content. View this paper
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Articles (24)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,660 Views
19 Pages

Optimization of Spray Drying Conditions for a Capsicum chinense Leaf Extract Rich in Polyphenols Obtained by Ultrasonic Probe/NADES

  • Kevin Alejandro Avilés-Betanzos,
  • Juan Valerio Cauich-Rodríguez,
  • Manuel Octavio Ramírez-Sucre and
  • Ingrid Mayanin Rodríguez-Buenfil

Habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense) is known for its heat and culinary uses, especially in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Its leaves, rich in bioactive compounds like polyphenols with antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties, have been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,990 Views
25 Pages

A novel material was created from natural ilmenite sand, and methylene blue (MB) was used to test the material’s capacity to remove colors from wastewater. The material was synthesized by neutralizing the acid leachate obtained by Ilmenite sand...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,155 Views
20 Pages

Amine-Based Solvents and Additives to Improve the CO2 Capture Processes: A Review

  • Dennis Loachamin,
  • Jordan Casierra,
  • Verónica Calva,
  • Alex Palma-Cando,
  • Edward E. Ávila and
  • Marvin Ricaurte

The use of amine-based solvents for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture has shown significant promise; however, operational challenges such as high energy requirements, solvent degradation, and equipment corrosion highlight the need for enhanced solutions....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,670 Views
31 Pages

Thermodynamic Analysis of Cyclic Operation of On-Board Nanoporous Carbon-Based Adsorbed Methane Storage Tank with Various Thermal Control Systems

  • Sergey S. Chugaev,
  • Ilya E. Men’shchikov,
  • Igor D. Shelyakin,
  • Evgeny M. Strizhenov,
  • Alexander E. Grinchenko,
  • Andrey V. Shkolin and
  • Anatoly A. Fomkin

Thermal effects of adsorption and desorption, leading to temperature fluctuations and losses of adsorption storage systems capacity in the processes of gas charging and discharging, are the main obstacle to the wide practical application of adsorbed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,038 Views
26 Pages

Plantwide Control for the Separation of THF-H2O in an Azeotropic Distillation Process

  • Moises Ramos-Martinez,
  • Gerardo Ortiz-Torres,
  • Felipe D. J. Sorcia-Vázquez,
  • Carlos Alberto Torres-Cantero,
  • Manuela Calixto-Rodriguez,
  • Mayra G. Mena-Enriquez,
  • Jorge Salvador Valdez Martínez,
  • Estela Sarmiento-Bustos,
  • Alan Cruz Rojas and
  • Jesse Y. Rumbo-Morales

This paper presents a plantwide control strategy for optimizing a pressure-swing azeotropic distillation process used in tetrahydrofuran dehydration. Leveraging Skogestad’s methodology, this strategy focused on two distillation columns: a low-p...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,264 Views
9 Pages

Sustainability requirements must be met by the appropriate selection of efficient and environmentally friendly materials and processes. We present materials obtained via all-in-water methods: first, few-layer graphene (FLG)–polyvinyl alcohol (P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,732 Views
19 Pages

The thermal decomposition of a heat-not-burn (HNB) tobacco at four temperatures (250–400 °C) was studied via thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and Multi-shot pyrolizer experiments (Py-GC/MS), and the effect of four potential additives, USY B...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,212 Views
35 Pages

Chemical Inhibitors in Gas Hydrate Formation: A Review of Modelling Approaches

  • Njabulo Mziwandile Zulu,
  • Hamed Hashemi and
  • Kaniki Tumba

Gas hydrate inhibition using chemicals has been under continuous investigation, and several modelling studies have been published since its inception. Since it is not always feasible to conduct experimental research, it is especially crucial to forec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,662 Views
18 Pages

Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry to Measure the Energetic Properties of Residual Sludge and Catalysts from the Textile, Tannery, and Galvanic Industries

  • Ghem Carvajal-Chávez,
  • Josselyn Cazar,
  • Gilda Gordillo,
  • Andrés De-La-Rosa,
  • Gonzalo Chiriboga and
  • Carolina Montero-Calderón

This research delved into the energetic properties of catalysts synthesized from residual sludge from the textile, galvanic, and tannery industries. The experimental process consisted of an initial heat treatment to activate their catalytic propertie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,621 Views
19 Pages

In recent decades, the global use of ashes derived from agro-industrial by-products, such as oil palm kernel shells, which are widely cultivated in Colombia and other tropical regions of the world, has increased. However, the application of these ash...

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