An insight into freezing crystallization with a perspective on its application in high-salinity industrial wastewater

Q Chen, D Zhou, Y Zhu, M Luo, Z Wu - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
At present, with the rapid development of global industry and the rapid global industrial
expansion, the production of high-salinity industrial wastewater has significantly increased …

Development of progressive freeze concentration and its application: A review

O Miyawaki, T Inakuma - Food and Bioprocess Technology, 2021 - Springer
Progressive freeze concentration (PFC) forms a single ice crystal in the system; therefore,
the system is much simpler as compared with the conventional method of equilibrium …

Freeze desalination by the integration of falling film and block freeze-concentration techniques

A Zambrano, Y Ruiz, E Hernández, M Raventós… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Block and falling film freeze concentration are two technologies that separate water by
freezing, with the potential to desalinate seawater. In this study, the integration of two freeze …

Production of pomegranate juice concentrate by complete block cryoconcentration process

F Khajehei, M Niakousari… - Journal of Food …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, complete block cryoconcentration of pomegranate juice was investigated. Two
freezing temperatures (− 20±1 C and− 40±1 C), two thawing modes (gravitational‐assisted …

Block freeze-concentration of coffee extract: Effect of freezing and thawing stages on solute recovery and bioactive compounds

FL Moreno, M Raventós, E Hernández… - Journal of Food …, 2014 - Elsevier
Coffee extract was freeze-concentrated using the total block technique. The effects of four
parameters were evaluated: the initial coffee mass fraction (5 and 15% w/w), the cooling …

Multi-stage block freeze-concentration of green tea (Camellia sinensis) extract

DL Meneses, Y Ruiz, E Hernandez… - Journal of Food …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tea is the third most consumed beverage in the world. It has bioactive compounds that
provide health benefits; for that reason, concentrating this product is a good alternative for …

Current status of emerging food processing technologies in Latin America: Novel thermal processing

L Moreno-Vilet, HM Hernández-Hernández… - Innovative Food Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review aims to describe the basic principles and applications of novel thermal
technologies focusing on studies in Latin American countries with respect to those …

Vacuum-assisted block freeze concentration applied to wine

G Petzold, P Orellana, J Moreno, E Cerda… - Innovative Food Science & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vacuum is an assisted technique to improve the efficiency of freeze concentration process,
and wine is an interesting raw material to be concentrated. In this study reported the vacuum …

Protection of polyphenols in blueberry juice by vacuum-assisted block freeze concentration

P Orellana-Palma, G Petzold, L Pierre… - Food and Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Block freeze concentration allows produces high-quality cryoconcentrates with important
protection of valuable components from fresh fruit juices. The aim of this study was to …

Intensification of freeze-drying rate of coffee extract by vacuum freezing

ACC Silva, FC Schmidt - Innovative Food Science & Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective of this work was to evaluate the use of vacuum freezing (VF) as a new method
for the freezing stage in the freeze-drying cycle of coffee extract. In this context, the freeze …