Mathematical modelling and optimisation of the formulation and manufacture of aggregate food products

Baş, Nurşin

Mathematical modelling and optimisation of the formulation and manufacture of aggregate food products

dc.contributor.advisor	Byrne, Edmond P.
dc.contributor.advisor	Fitzpatrick, John J.
dc.contributor.author	Baş, Nurşin
dc.contributor.funder	Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ireland	en
dc.date.accessioned	2011-08-29T12:21:11Z
dc.date.available	2011-08-29T12:21:11Z
dc.date.issued	2010-07
dc.date.submitted	2010-07-29
dc.description.abstract	In this PhD study, mathematical modelling and optimisation of granola production has been carried out. Granola is an aggregated food product used in breakfast cereals and cereal bars. It is a baked crispy food product typically incorporating oats, other cereals and nuts bound together with a binder, such as honey, water and oil, to form a structured unit aggregate. In this work, the design and operation of two parallel processes to produce aggregate granola products were incorporated: i) a high shear mixing granulation stage (in a designated granulator) followed by drying/toasting in an oven. ii) a continuous fluidised bed followed by drying/toasting in an oven. In addition, the particle breakage of granola during pneumatic conveying produced by both a high shear granulator (HSG) and fluidised bed granulator (FBG) process were examined. Products were pneumatically conveyed in a purpose built conveying rig designed to mimic product conveying and packaging. Three different conveying rig configurations were employed; a straight pipe, a rig consisting two 45° bends and one with 90° bend. It was observed that the least amount of breakage occurred in the straight pipe while the most breakage occurred at 90° bend pipe. Moreover, lower levels of breakage were observed in two 45° bend pipe than the 90° bend vi pipe configuration. In general, increasing the impact angle increases the degree of breakage. Additionally for the granules produced in the HSG, those produced at 300 rpm have the lowest breakage rates while the granules produced at 150 rpm have the highest breakage rates. This effect clearly the importance of shear history (during granule production) on breakage rates during subsequent processing. In terms of the FBG there was no single operating parameter that was deemed to have a significant effect on breakage during subsequent conveying. A population balance model was developed to analyse the particle breakage occurring during pneumatic conveying. The population balance equations that govern this breakage process are solved using discretization. The Markov chain method was used for the solution of PBEs for this process. This study found that increasing the air velocity (by increasing the air pressure to the rig), results in increased breakage among granola aggregates. Furthermore, the analysis carried out in this work provides that a greater degree of breakage of granola aggregates occur in line with an increase in bend angle.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ireland (FIRM - Food Institutional Research Measure)	en
dc.description.status	Not peer reviewed	en
dc.description.version	Accepted Version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.citation	Baş, N, 2010. Mathematical modelling and optimisation of the formulation and manufacture of aggregate food products. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10468/396
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University College Cork	en
dc.relation.uri	http://library.ucc.ie/record=b1998528~S0
dc.rights	© 2010, Nurşin Baş	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	en
dc.subject	Population balance modelling	en
dc.subject	Breakage	en
dc.subject	Aggregation	en
dc.subject	Simulation	en
dc.subject	Probabilistic theory	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Cereal products	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Agglomeration	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Probabilities	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Mathematical models	en
dc.title	Mathematical modelling and optimisation of the formulation and manufacture of aggregate food products	en
dc.type	Doctoral thesis	en
dc.type.qualificationlevel	Doctoral	en
dc.type.qualificationname	PhD (Engineering)	en