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Marcelo Lanza1, Wagner Luís Priamo, José Vladimir Oliveira
1Department of Food Engineering, URI-Campus de Erechim, Av. Sete de Setembro, 1621-Erechim-RS, 99700-000, Brazil.
Abstract:
We investigated the influence of temperature, pressure, exposure time, and decompression rate on lipase activity in high-pressure CO2 medium. A high-pressure, variable-volume view cell was employed in the experiments, varying the temperature from 30 to 70 degrees C in the pressure range of 70-250 bar at various high-pressure exposure times (60-360 min) and adopting several decompression rates (10-200 kg/[m3 x min]). The results obtained show that an increase in temperature and density led to an enhancement of enzyme activity losses while the decompression rates had a weak influence on enzyme inactivation.
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