Continuous Recycling in the Homogenization of Relatively Small Samples

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Abstract
If small samples are permitted to circulate continuously through a homogenizer, degrees of homogenization are obtained which resemble those obtained at pressures beyond the pressure range of the homogenizer. Consideration of a milk sample of volume V circulating through a homogenizer of capacity C leads to the conclusion that the fraction fp of the sample which has undergone p homogenizations after a time interval t is distributed according to the equation: [image] The degree of homogenization as measured by the turbidity coefficient kp is related to the number of homogenizations P undergone by a sample in intermittent homogenization by the emipirical equation: [image]Combining the equations permits the calculation of the degree of homogenization in terms of turbidity at any time t of a sample undergoing continuous recycling in homogenization. Good agreement was obtained between experimental and calculated turbidity values.

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