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Water activity of aqueous solutions of ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block copolymers and maltodextrins
Fecha
2010Registro en:
Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering, v.27, n.1, p.173-181, 2010
0104-6632
10.1590/S0104-66322010000100015
Autor
CARARETO, N. D. D.
MONTEIRO FILHO, E. S.
PESSÔA FILHO, P. A.
MEIRELLES, A. J. A.
Institución
Resumen
The water activity of aqueous solutions of EO-PO block copolymers of six different molar masses and EO/PO ratios and of maltodextrins of three different molar masses was determined at 298.15 K. The results showed that these aqueous solutions present a negative deviation from Raoult's law. The Flory-Huggins and UNIFAC excess Gibbs energy models were employed to model the experimental data. While a good agreement was obtained with the Flory-Huggins equation, discrepancies were observed when predicting the experimental behavior with the UNIFAC model. The water activities of ternary systems formed by a synthetic polymer, maltodextrin and water were also measured and used to test the predictive capability of both models.