Emulsion Formation and Stability
Emulsion Formation and Stability
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乳液的形成和稳定性
DOI:
10.1002/9783527647941.ch4
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2013
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Niknafs N
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Niknafs N
A wide range of natural and processed foods are emulsion based, and understanding and controlling their functionality requires knowledge of emulsion formation, stability, storage, and how these systems break down on consumption. Controlling the droplet size of the emulsion is one of the means to induce particular functionalities; droplet size influences important emulsion properties, such as stability, color, and shelf life [1]. The final average emulsion droplet size is the result of the dynamic balance between the two subprocesses of droplet breakup and coalescence, which occur simultaneously during emulsification. Despite previous studies, a lack of understanding of the physical behavior of emulsions during processing remains, mostly because of the lack of direct measurement techniques for monitoring the mechanism of emulsification in real time. In a typical emulsification process, under steady state conditions the droplet size would be the result of the dynamic balance between droplet breakup and coalescence. However, the time scales of the subprocesses in the early stages of emulsification are significantly short. Thus, droplet sizes and droplet size distributions of any process undergo rapid variations, which create a necessity for robust measurement techniques. An overview of the measurement techniques developed for experimental studies of emulsification is shown in Table 4.1. These techniques can generally be divided into three categories: those monitoring droplet size, those that concentrate on droplet breakup, and those that consider coalescence individually.Several techniques exist for offline measurement of droplet size using samples obtained from emulsification experiments. The reliability of the measurements of the samples depends on the stability of the samples after sampling and before the measurement. Therefore, it is often a problem when precise measurements are required with samples that are not stable under natural conditions. In order to overcome this problem, after sampling, a large amount of stabilizer is added to the solution in order to ensure that the droplet size will not change until the time of the measurement. However, not only may the time from sampling until the addition