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6.5 THE NET ISOSTERIC HEAT OF SORPTION q st , THE TOTAL ISOSTERIC<br />

HEAT OF SORPTION Q st AND THE ENTROPY OF SORPTION S d<br />

The net isosteric heat of sorption q st is defined as the total heat of sorption Q st in the food or<br />

fibre minus the latent heat of vaporisation of water H L , at the system temperature (Tsami et<br />

al., 1990). Conventionally, q st is a positive quantity when heat is evolved during<br />

adsorption and negative when heat is absorbed during desorption. It is indicative of the<br />

intermolecular attractive forces between the sorption sites and water vapour (Wang and<br />

Brennan, 1991).<br />

The values of the net isosteric heat of sorption q st are obtained from the slopes of ln a w<br />

versus 1/T plots by linear regression analysis with the assumption that they are constant<br />

over the temperature range studied. According to the differential form of the Clausius<br />

Clapeyron equation (Labuza, 1984):<br />

⎡<br />

⎢<br />

⎣<br />

d<br />

d<br />

( ln aw<br />

) ⎤ qst<br />

= −<br />

( 1/ T) ⎥<br />

R<br />

⎦<br />

m<br />

(3)<br />

where a w is the water activity, T is the Kelvin temperature (K), m is the equilibrium<br />

moisture content, q st is the net isosteric heat of sorption (kJ mol -1 ), and R is the universal<br />

gas constant (8.314 J mol -1 K -1 ).<br />

Since equation (3) holds only for constant moisture content, values of the water activity a w<br />

at specified moisture contents need to be evaluated from the best-fit isotherm equation<br />

(Hailwood-Horrobin model in this case). In this study the water activity at 18 fixed<br />

moisture values (namely 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35<br />

g/g db) were calculated. In order to do this, the Hailwood-Horrobin equation:<br />

aw<br />

m<br />

=<br />

b +<br />

c a<br />

w<br />

+ d( a w<br />

)<br />

2<br />

was written in the form of a quadratic equation:<br />

d a<br />

2<br />

w<br />

1<br />

+ ( c − ) aw<br />

+ b =<br />

m<br />

0<br />

and solved for a w at the chosen values of m.<br />

Only the positive values of a w are taken. This was effected at four temperatures (i.e. 30,<br />

45, 55 and 60 °C) for the same chosen values of the moisture content. For each moisture<br />

content, ln a w calculated for the four temperatures are plotted as ordinate against 1/T as<br />

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