scholarly journals Pickering Emulsions Containing Cellulose Microfibers Produced by Mechanical Treatments as Stabilizer in the Food Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Sanchez-Salvador ◽  
Ana Balea ◽  
M. Concepcion Monte ◽  
Angeles Blanco ◽  
Carlos Negro

Pickering emulsions are emulsions stabilized by solid particles, which generally provide a more stable system than traditional surfactants. Among various solid stabilizers, bio-based particles from renewable resources, such as micro- and nanofibrillated cellulose, may open up new opportunities for the future of Pickering emulsions owing to their properties of nanosize, biodegradability, biocompatibility, and renewability. The aim of this research was to obtain oil-in water (O/W) Pickering emulsions using cellulose microfibers (CMF) produced from cotton cellulose linters by mechanical treatment through a high-pressure homogenizer. The O/W Pickering emulsions were prepared with different O/W ratios by mixing edible oil (sunflower oil) with water containing CMF at concentrations of up to 1.0 wt%. The apparent viscosity of the separated emulsion phase was measured. Results showed the feasibility of using low concentration of CMF for preparing and stabilizing Pickering emulsions, with the apparent viscosity of the emulsion phase increasing 60–90 times with respect to the sunflower oil, for a shear rate of 1 s−1. In addition, theoretical nutrition facts of the emulsions were calculated and compared with other fats used in foods, showing that they can be a promising low-calorie product containing dietary fiber, replacing trans and saturated fats in foods.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arantzazu Santamaria-Echart ◽  
Isabel P. Fernandes ◽  
Samara C. Silva ◽  
Stephany C. Rezende ◽  
Giovana Colucci ◽  
...  

The food industry depends on using different additives, which increases the search for effective natural or natural-derived solutions, to the detriment of the synthetic counterparts, a priority in a biobased and circular economy scenario. In this context, different natural emulsifiers are being studied to create a new generation of emulsion-based products. Among them, phospholipids, saponins, proteins, polysaccharides, biosurfactants (e.g., compounds derived from microbial fermentation), and organic-based solid particles (Pickering stabilizers) are being used or start to gather interest from the food industry. This chapter includes the basic theoretical fundamentals of emulsions technology, stabilization mechanisms, and stability. The preparation of oil-in-water (O/W) and water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions, the potential of double emulsions, and the re-emerging Pickering emulsions are discussed. Moreover, the most relevant natural-derived emulsifier families (e.g., origin, stabilization mechanism, and applications) focusing food applications are presented. The document is grounded in a bibliographic review mainly centered on the last 10-years, and bibliometric data was rationalized and used to better establish the hot topics in the proposed thematic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Yang ◽  
Shujuan Wang ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Jiazhong Wu ◽  
Siyu Yang ◽  
...  

Abstract Pickering emulsions with on–off properties provide significant advantages over simple solid-stabilized emulsions for the development of novel materials, such as oil-displacing agents for enhanced oil recovery and templates for the fabrication of porous materials. However, the irreversible adsorption of particles as emulsion stabilizers endows the Pickering emulsions with kinetically stable property, resulting in a huge challenge to break the stability. Here we fabricated microscale Pickering emulsions, by the use of paramagnetic particles, which possess excellent stability for several months and more interestingly perform complete demulsification under controllable magnetic fields in several minutes. The alternating asymmetrical magnetic field endows oil-in-water droplets ‘‘big’’ N and S poles on the outer particle layers, and attracts the solid particles to the bottom of the vial after the coalescence and the deformation of the droplets, bringing the prevention of re-emulsion and the cyclic utilization. This facile strategy to produce stable Pickering emulsions with a magnetic-response opens a promising avenue for various practical applications including oil recovery, wastewater treatment, and sludge removal.


2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 878-884
Author(s):  
Leon J. Schurgers ◽  
Martin J. Shearer ◽  
Berry A.M. Soute ◽  
Ibrahim Elmadfa ◽  
Julia Harvey ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 106562
Author(s):  
Zhongyang Ren ◽  
Zhanming Li ◽  
Zhongzheng Chen ◽  
Yuanyuan Zhang ◽  
Xiaorong Lin ◽  
...  

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 2856
Author(s):  
Gary B. Smejkal ◽  
Edmund Y. Ting ◽  
Karthik Nambi Arul Nambi ◽  
Richard T. Schumacher ◽  
Alexander V. Lazarev

Stable, oil-in-water nanoemulsions containing astaxanthin (AsX) were produced by intense fluid shear forces resulting from pumping a coarse reagent emulsion through a self-throttling annular gap valve at 300 MPa. Compared to crude emulsions prepared by conventional homogenization, a size reduction of over two orders of magnitude was observed for AsX-encapsulated oil droplets following just one pass through the annular valve. In krill oil formulations, the mean hydrodynamic diameter of lipid particles was reduced to 60 nm after only two passes through the valve and reached a minimal size of 24 nm after eight passes. Repeated processing of samples through the valve progressively decreased lipid particle size, with an inflection in the rate of particle size reduction generally observed after 2–4 passes. Krill- and argan oil-based nanoemulsions were produced using an Ultra Shear Technology™ (UST™) approach and characterized in terms of their small particle size, low polydispersity, and stability.


Particuology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhu Sun ◽  
Xiaoxiao Yan ◽  
Yao Xiao ◽  
Lingjie Hu ◽  
Max Eggersdorfer ◽  
...  

Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Jin Cho ◽  
Dong-Min Kim ◽  
In-Ho Song ◽  
Ju-Young Choi ◽  
Seung-Won Jin ◽  
...  

A pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) and 4,4′-oxydianiline (ODA)-based oligoimide (PMDA-ODA) was synthesized by a one-step procedure using water as a solvent. The PMDA-ODA particles showed excellent partial wetting properties and were stably dispersed in both water and oil phases. A stable dispersion was not obtained with comparison PMDA-ODA particles that were synthesized by a conventional two-step method using an organic solvent. Both oil-in-water and water-in-oil Pickering emulsions were prepared using the oligoimide particles synthesized in water, and the size of the emulsion droplet was controlled based on the oligoimide particle concentration. The oligoimide particles were tested to prepare Pickering emulsions using various kinds of oils. The oil-in-water Pickering emulsions were successfully applied to prepare microcapsules of the emulsion droplets. Our new Pickering emulsion stabilizer has the advantages of easy synthesis, no need for surface modification, and the capability of stabilizing both oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions.


Author(s):  
V. Anandram ◽  
S. Ramakrishnan ◽  
J. Karthick ◽  
S. Saravanan ◽  
G. LakshmiNarayanaRao

In the present work, the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of sunflower oil, sunflower methyl ester and its blends were studied and compared with diesel by employing them as fuel in a single cylinder, direct injection, 4.4 KW, air cooled diesel engine. Emission measurements were carried out using five-gas exhaust gas analyzer and smoke meter. The performance characteristics of Sunflower oil, Sunflower methyl ester and its blends were comparable with those of diesel. The components of exhaust such as HC, CO, NOx and soot concentration of the fuels were measured and presented as a function of load and it was observed that the blends had similar performance and emission characteristics as those of diesel. NOx emissions of sunflower oil methyl ester were slightly higher than that of diesel but that of sunflower oil was slightly lower than that of diesel. With respect to the combustion characteristics it was found that the biofuels have lower ignition delay than diesel. The heat release rate was very high for diesel than for the biofuel.


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