Assessment of water diffusivity in gelatine gel from moisture profiles. I - Non-destructive measurement of 1D moisture profiles during drying from 2D nuclear magnetic resonance images
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A method to assess the relationship between water diffusivity and water content was developed. This method combines the non-destructive measurement of water distribution in sample by NMR imaging during isothermal drying process and data treatment for shrinking/swelling materials and which needs no a priori on the relationship D=f(X). Gelatine gel samples (60 bloom) were used to test the method. Their initial moisture contents were between 1.8 and 5 kg water/kg dry basis, pH between 4 and 8 and temperature in the range of 10 and 24°C. This first part describes the experiments. A specific assembly adapted to the small microimaging probehead was built to promote isothermal and unidirectional drying of the samples. Successive steps were developed to calculate local moisture contents from independent calibration and sources of error were evaluated. It was shown that 2D NMR signal amplitude images must be recorded to derive the true 1D moisture content profiles although the time acquisition is longer. The time variation of 1D moisture content profiles with a spatial resolution of 49 μm and shrinkage was analysed. © 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Drying; Food; Mass transfer; MRI; Water diffusivity Diffusion; Drying; Food products; Image processing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mass transfer; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Shrinkage; Swelling; Water; Gelatine gel; Isothermal drying; Unidirectional drying; Water diffusivity; Moisture
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