A simplified calculation method applied to enzyme inactivation during drying
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Biotechnology & Bioengineering
- Vol. 27 (1) , 109-116
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.260270113
Abstract
An approximate method for solving the nonlinear diffusion problem in the case of a power-function variation of the diffusion coefficient with concentration has been applied to a drying process with simultaneous enzyme inactivation. Experimental results obtained by air drying of soybean lipoxygenase entrapped in a glucose calcium-alginate gel are in good agreement with the predicted behavior, whereas hardly any differences occur between the results obtained with the approximate method and those obtained by a numerical solution of the original model.Keywords
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