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Q. 21 (3) 441−446 (2015) SHIFENG LI1,2 YANMING SHEN2 DONGBING LIU2 LIHUI FAN2 ZHE TAN2 ZHIGANG ZHANG1,2 WENXIU LI1,2 WENPENG LI2 1 Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Separation Technology, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning, China 2 College of Chemical Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning, China SCIENTIFIC PAPER UDC DOI 10.2298/CICEQ140730046L CI&CEQ EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCENTRATION OF TOMATO JUICE BY CO2 HYDRATE FORMATION Article Highlights • Novel tomato juice concentration process using CO2 hydrate formation is presented • Tomato juice has a small effect on CO2 hydrate formation • The maximum dehydration ratio can reach 63.2% with feed pressure of 3.95 MPa • The rate constant increased with increasing the feed pressure Abstract A new tomato juice concentration technology using CO2 hydrate formation is presented. The CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions were measured by the isochoric pressure search method and tomato juice concentration experiments were carried out in a high-pressure stirred reactor. Moreover, the dehydration ratio was defined and CO2 hydrate formation rate constants were calculated with different feed pressures. The effects of feed pressure, temperature, and juice volume on the dehydration ratio were investigated. The results show that the tomato juice used in this work has almost no effect on CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium conditions, but can accelerate CO2 hydrate formation. The dehydration ratio increased with increasing the feed pressure from 1.81 to 3.95 MPa; the maximum dehydration ratio reached 63.2% at a feed pressure of 3.95 MPa, and the optimum tomato juice volume was 80 mL. These results demonstrated that removal of water with the help of CO2 hydrate is an efficient technology for tomato juice concentration. Keywords: concentration, separation, clathrate hydrate, carbon dioxide, tomato juice. Fruit juice concentration is recognized wordwide as a way to preserve fruit and reduce transport costs. Despite recent advances in fruit juice concentration, there remain numerous challenges. Evaporation, membranes (ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and membrane distillation), and freeze concentration have been developed for concentrated juice processing [1-4]. However, the evaporation process is usually carried out in evaporators at high temperature, which causes valuable constituent losses (for example aroma compounds) and decreases the final product quality. Membrane concentration is regarded as a good alternative to the thermal methods of juice concentration, Correspondence: S. Li, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Separation Technology, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110142, China. E-mail: [email protected] Paper received: 30 July, 2014 Paper revised: 23 November, 2014 Paper accepted: 22 December, 2014 but the membrane could get dirty as the product is concentrated and the concentration process is costly [2,3]. Regarding the third method, concentrate quality is also satisfactory but it consumes a lot of energy, in particular during the ice nucleation step [4]. Hydrate technology has received much recent interest for its applications in the field of gas storage [5-7], CO2 capture [8-15], desalination [16-18] and so on. Hydrates are nonstoichiometric crystalline inclusion compounds formed through the combination of water and suitably sized “guest” molecules, typically under low temperature and elevated pressure conditions [19]. Recently, hydrate separation has been a rapidly growing research area. The concentration process by gas hydrate formation is similar to freeze concentration. However, the difference is that the ice formation step is replaced by gas hydrate crystal formation during gas hydrate concentration. Since gas hydrate can be formed above 0 °C, energy use becomes smaller than that in freezing [9,13-15,19]. 441 S. LI et al.: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCENTRATION OF TOMATO JUICE… Despite recent advances in hydrate separation technology, there are few reports on aqueous concentration via hydrate formation, especially in juice concentration [20-22]. In fact, as early as the 1960s, Huang et al. [20] utilized CH3Br and CCl3F hydrate to concentrate apple, tomato, and tomato juices. No difficulty was encountered in removing approximately 80% of the water from the substrates. Because the hydrate formation gas is not environmental friendly, the practical use of juice concentration by CH3Br and CCl3F hydrate formation is limited. In the subsequent 40 years there had been no reports on on fruit juice concentration via gas hydrate formation until 2001, when Purwanto et al. [21] proposed concentration of coffee solutions by use of xenon hydrate. They determined the induction time and size distribution of gas hydrate and found that longer time was required for higher concentration of solution to form xenon hydrate and higher temperature and lower xenon pressure yielded the larger size of xenon hydrate. Recently, Andersen and Thomsen [22] investigated the possibility of using gas hydrates for concentration of sugar juice. They found the process was not suitable for sugar production, but could be interesting for concentration of heat sensitive, or high value products. Most recently, Purwanto et al. [23] designed a novel higher pressure container to concentrate coffee solution by formation of Xe hydrate. The ingenious designs of the higher pressure container could contribute to the development of separation process continuously. To our knowledge, there is no report on tomato juice concentration via formation of CO2 hydrate. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to develop a novel tomato juice concentration method via CO2 hydrate formation and investigate the effect of feed pressure, temperature, and volume of juice on the concentration efficiency in order to establish the optimum operating conditions and explore practical applications of the technique in the future. EXPERIMENTAL Materials CO2 gas (99.99%) was purchased from Beijing AP BAIF Gases Industry CO., Ltd (China) and tomato juice was supplied by Kagome (Taiwan). The contents of reducing sugars, total acid, vitamin C, soluble solid and water content of tomato juice are listed in Table 1. Chem. Ind. Chem. Eng. Q. 21 (3) 441−446 (2015) General procedure CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium. The basic experimental setup was adopted from Li et al. [24] with modifications made to facilitate the higher pressure applications. It mainly consisted of a stainless-steel reactor (volume 300 mL) equipped with a magnetic stirrer (Nantong Feiyu Science and Technology exploitation Co., China). The reactor was designed to be operated at pressure up to 25 MPa. The temperature of the reactor was controlled by circulating the coolant from a thermostat (Tianheng THCD-306) with a stability of ±0.01 K inside the jacket around the cell. Two Pt100 resistance thermometers (Westzh WZ-PT100) within 0.1 K in accuracy, placed in the middle and bottom of the reactor, respectively, were used to monitor the temperature of the reactor. A pressure transducer (Senex DG-1300) within 0.01 MPa in accuracy measured the pressure inside of the reactor. The pressures and temperatures of the reactor were recorded by data logger (Agilent 34972A). The hydrate equilibrium conditions were measured by the isochoric pressure search method [25]. The cell containing liquids (approximately 120 mL) was immersed into the temperature-controlled bath. Carbon dioxide gas was then supplied from a gas cylinder through a pressure-regulating vale into the evacuated cell until the pressure inside the cell was increased to the desired level. After the temperature and pressure were stabilized, the valve in the line connecting the cell and cylinder was closed; then, the stirrer was started. Subsequently, the temperature was gradually decreased to form the hydrate. Hydrate formation in the cell can be detected by a decrease in pressure and an increase in temperature. The temperature was then increased with steps of 0.1 K. At every step, the temperature was held constant for 4 h to achieve equilibrium state in the cell. In this way, a P-T diagram was obtained for each experimental run, from which the hydrate dissociation point was determined [25]. Consequently, the point at which the slope of the p-T curve plots sharply changed was considered as the hydrate dissociation point at which all hydrate crystals have dissociated. Tomato juice hydrate concentration experiment. After 100 mL tomato juice solution was introduced into the evacuated reactor, the reactor was cooled to the desired value (typically 275.8 K). When the cell temperature was stabilized, the reactor was vacu- Table 1. The contents of reducing sugars, total acid, vitamin C, soluble solid and water content of tomato juice used in this work Component Content 442 Reducing sugar, g/100 g Total acid, g/kg Vitamin C, mg/100 g Soluble solid, % Water content, % 2.51 3.31 16.85 5.5 94.2 S. LI et al.: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCENTRATION OF TOMATO JUICE… umed to ensure the absence of air, and then CO2 was charged into cell until the given pressure. Then, the CO2 intake valve was closed and the stirrer was started to initiate hydrate formation (500 rpm). During the experiment, the temperature and pressure were recorded. After hydrate formation finished (the system pressure was stable), the stirrer was stopped. Calculation method The moles of gas consumed. The number of moles of CO2 gas that has been consumed during hydrate formation can be calculated as [14]: Δn = n f − n e = pV p eV g f g − z fRT z eRT (1) where z is the compressibility factor of CO2 gas calculated by the SRK equation of state, and subscripts f and e refer to component of the feed gas and equilibrium gas. The volume of CO2 gas was assumed constant throughout the hydrate formation process (volume changes due to the phase transitions were neglected). Dehydration ratio. The content of water in hydrate phase is important for evaluating the dehydration ratio of CO2 (defined as the ratio of water in the hydrate phase and in the feed tomato juice). Because it is difficult to determine the water cut in hydrate phase in the presence of residual concentrated tomato juice, the following assumption and calculation were adapted: CO2 connects with water to form CO2 hydrate based on the following reaction equations: CO2 (g) + nH2O (l) → CO2 ⋅ nH2O (H) n Δnw H2O mf 1 K∗ = ∗ = aK ( μ f − μe ) 1 kf − 1 kL (4) (5) where a is the interfacial area, K ∗ is the overall kinetic constant, μ f and μe are chemical potentials of the guest molecule in the gas phase and in the hydrate phase, respectively, k f is the crystal growth constant, and k L is the mass transfer coefficient in the liquid phase. Under the conditions of this study, 1/ k L could be eliminated by vigorous stirring (500 rpm) in the reactor ( 1/ k f >> 1/ k L ). So the hydrate rate can be expressed by: ff dn rf = − = ak f ( μ f − μe ) = ak fRT ln f t d e (6) Δn V g (f f − f e ) rf = = Δt Δt RT (7) where f f and f e are the fugacity of the gas phase and the hydrate phase at equilibrium condition, respectively, calculated by SRK equation of state. Vg is the volume of the gas phase and Δt is the time to reach equilibrium for hydrate separation process. Since it is difficult to separate the terms a and k f from the experimental results for the fugacity change, the hydrate rate constant is expressed as: ak f = Vg (f f − f e ) (RT )2 Δt ln(f f / f e ) (8) (2) where n is the hydrate number of CO2 hydrate. According to theoretical calculation result of Mckov and Sinanoğlu [26] and Raman spectroscopic analyses data of Uchida et al. [27], the hydrate number of CO2 hydrate in this work is approximately equal to 7.24. Therefore, the dehydration ratio (D) can be calculated by the following formula: D = 100 dn − dt Chem. Ind. Chem. Eng. Q. 21 (3) 441−446 (2015) (3) where w H2O is molar mass of water, and m f is the mass of water in feed tomato juice. Hydrate formation rate constant. The hydrate formation rate can be expressed in terms of fugacity difference during formation and at equilibrium [28,29]. In this study, the chemical potential difference was used as the driving force and the apparent gas uptake rate (–dn/dt) is expressed as: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Figure 1 shows the curve of CO2 gas-liquid equilibrium and CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium. So, the temperature and pressure conditions of tomato juice concentration experiments were chosen in the ellipse region between the two curves. Firstly, to elucidate how the water cut of tomato juice (94.2 wt%) affects CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium, hydrate phase equilibrium conditions for CO2 in water and tomato juice systems were measured in the presence of pure water and tomato juice by an isochoric pressure search method. The phase equilibrium data are given in Figure 2. From Figure 2, it is apparent that the CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium curve in the presence of tomato juice agrees roughly with that in water. Therefore, it can be concluded that the tomato juice has nearly no effect on CO2 hydrate phase equilibrium conditions because the most of tomato juice (94.2 wt.%) is water and the most of the 443 S. LI et al.: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCENTRATION OF TOMATO JUICE… residuals (fructose and soluble solid) have little effect on equilibrium temperature and pressure of CO2 hydrate formation [22]. Chem. Ind. Chem. Eng. Q. 21 (3) 441−446 (2015) the feed pressure of 3.46 MPa. As we can see, the dehydration ratio increased with decreasing of temperature in the range of 274.8-279.8 K. Although lower temperature is favorable for tomato juice concentration, the lower temperature would need higher refrigeration energy consumption. Comparing the results in Figures 3 and 4, we can conclude that increasing feed pressure is more efficient for tomato juice concentration than reducing temperature. Figure 1. Schematic of hydrate formation regions. Figure 3. Dehydration ratio as function of feed pressure. Figure 2. Hydrate phase equilibrium conditions for CO2 in water and tomato juice systems. Then the tomato juice concentration experiments were carried out with different feed pressure. In this work, the feed pressure of CO2 gas varied from 1.80 to 3.95 MPa. As shown in Figure 3, the dehydration ratio calculated using Eq. (3) increased with the feed pressure increasing. The maximum dehydration ratio can reach 63.2% with a feed pressure of 3.95 MPa. The results clearly indicate that higher dehydration ratio can be obtained with higher feed pressure because of more hydrate formation. However, although higher feed pressure was more beneficial for concentration efficiency, the higher feed pressure would need higher cost compression work. The effect of hydrate formation temperature on dehydration ratio was also studied. Figure 4 shows the dehydration ratio as a function of temperature with 444 Figure 4. Dehydration ratio as function of temperature. The effect of tomato juice volume on dehydration ratio was studied at 275.8 K and 3.46 MPa. As shown in Figure 5, the dehydration ratio first increased up to 65.2% and then decreased when tomato juice volume increased from 40 to 120 mL. With increasing tomato juice volume the mass of removed water accordingly increased. The increase in tomato juice volume from 40 to 120 mL will decrease the free volume space in the reactor. With the same feeding pressure, due to the different free volume space, the amount of CO2 will be different. So when the volume S. LI et al.: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCENTRATION OF TOMATO JUICE… of tomato juice is 40 mL, the liquid volume just accounts for approximately one-thirteenth of the reactor. Because the stirrer stays in a fixed position, the mix of CO2 gas and tomato juice could be insufficient, which causes the dehydration ratio to decrease. Therefore, considering the mass of removed water, the optimum tomato juice volume is 80 mL. Chem. Ind. Chem. Eng. Q. 21 (3) 441−446 (2015) although the presence of tomato juice does not affect the equilibrium conditions of CO2 hydrate, it can impact the kinetics of the hydrate formation due to the texture in tomato juice. The solid particles in the mixture may serve as nuclei for initiating the hydrate formation, which may accelerate the CO2 hydrate formation [19,29]. Table 2. Results for the hydrate formation rate constant Pressure, MPa akf×108 / J-1 mol2 s-1 1.81 0.94 2.40 1.36 3.10 1.65 3.46 1.82 3.95 2.01 CONCLUSIONS Figure 5. Dehydration ratio as function of tomato juice volume. To reveal the effect of feed pressure on hydrate formation kinetics, the CO2 hydrate formation rate constants were defined and calculated. As shown in Table 2, the CO2 hydrate formation rate constants calculated using Eq. (8) were 0.94×10-8, 1.36×10-8, 1.65×10-8, 1.82×10-8 and 2.01×10-8 J-1 mol2 s-1 with feed pressure of 1.81, 2.40, 3.10, 3.46 and 3.95 MPa, respectively. The results showed that the rate constant increased with increasing the feed pressure. It can be explained by the higher feed pressure that a larger driving force was achieved, which is consistent with the two-film model for hydrate formation process [28,29]. Several studies have reported the formation rate of CO2 hydrate. For example, Uchida et al. [30,31] observed CO2 hydrate formation process at the interface between water and CO2 using microscopy and found that the rate-determining process is mainly heat diffusion from the reaction sites. They also studied the effect of addition of NaCl on lateral growth rate of CO2 hydrate films, and their observations suggested that the hydrate formation rate in NaCl solution is determined by not only the heat transport, but also the mass transport of NaCl. Yang et al. [32] concluded that vigorous inter-phase mixing reduced heat and mass transfer resistances and the global reaction rate may ultimately approached the intrinsic CO2 hydrate formation rate. Tajma et al. [33] also carried out CO2 hydrate formation experiments to elucidate the effects of mixing functions of the static mixer on CO2 hydrate formation. In conclusion, A novel separation process was developed for tomato juice concentration on the basis of CO2 hydrate formation. The CO2 hydrate equilibrium conditions in the presence tomato juice were measured by the isochoric pressure search method. 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Kiyono, Energy Fuels 19 (2005) 2364-2370. 1,2 SHIFENG LI YANMING SHEN2 DONGBING LIU2 LIHUI FAN2 ZHE TAN2 ZHIGANG ZHANG1,2 WENXIU LI1,2 WENPENG LI2 1 Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Chemical Separation Technology, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning, China 2 College of Chemical Engineering, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, Liaoning, China NAUČNI RAD 446 EKSPERIMENTALNO PROUČAVANJE KONCETRISANJE SOKA OD PARADAJZA OBRAZOVANJEM CO2 HIDRATA U radu je predstavljen nova tehnologija koncetrisanja soka od paradajza formiranjem CO2 hidrata. Ravnotežni uslovi CO2 hidrata su mereni metodom ispitivanja izohorskog pritiska. Eksperimenti koncntrisanja soka od paradajza su sprovedeni u reaktoru sa mešanjem pod visokim pritiskom. Štaviše, definisan je dehidratacioni odnos i određene su konstante brzine formiranje CO2 hidrata pod različitim pritiscima. Analizirani su i efekti pritiska, temperature i zapremine soka na dehidratacioni odnos. Rezultati pokazuju da korišćeni sok od paradajza skoro nema nikakav uticaj na ravnotežu CO2 hidrata, ali može da ubrza formiranje CO2 hidrata. Dehidratacioni odnos se povećava sa povećanjem pritiska od 1,81 do 3,95 MPa, a maksimalni dehidratacioni odnos može dostići vrednost od 63,2% pri pritisku od 3.95 MPa i optimalnom količinom soka od paradajza od 80 ml. Ovi rezultati pokazuju da uklanjanje vode uz pomoć CO2 hidrata predstavlja efikasnu tehnologiju koncentrisanja soka od paradajza. Ključne reči: koncentrisanje, odvajanje, klatratni hidrat, ugljen-dioksid, sok od paradajza.
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