Raoult's law based food water sorption isotherm
2000
Lewicki, P.P.
A new model of water sorption isotherm is developed on the basis of Raoult's law. It is assumed that water present in food occurs in two states, as free water with properties of the bulk water and as water of hydration. Hydrated molecules are considered as new entities with molecular weights larger than those of non-hydrated molecules. Hydration reduces the free concentration of water and thus affects water activity in solution. Application of the developed equation to food sorption data showed that it gives approximation of sorption isotherms much better than that offered by the GAB model. Moreover, it predicts infinite adsorption at a(w)=1, the property which is not offered by the GAB equation. The new equation makes it possible to interpolate isotherms at high water activities close to one. The probability that the new equation will fit the food isotherm with small RMS is higher than 90% and substantially exceeds that found for the GAB model. As a two-parameter model it makes substantial improvement over the three-parameter GAB equation.
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