Potato starch and potato granules are materials that are often used in extrusion processes. It is important to quantify their rheology for modelling and prediction of process performance. The compaction behaviour of potato starch was examined at water contents of 4-18% wwb (wet weight basis) for pressures between 1 and 85 MPa. The Heckel deformation stress decreased as the water content increased up to 12% but became inaccurate at 18%. This decrease agreed qualitatively with other observations of the decrease in stiffness of starchy materials over this water content range. Potato granules were examined at water contents of 25-45% wwb and aspects of their rheological behaviour characterized using different approaches. A first approximation used the shear viscosity-shear rate power law which produced a law exponent for the resulting pastes (0.1-0.2). The classical Benbow equation was used to estimate yield and wall shear stresses in capillary flow. The latter indicates the presence of slip which was examined more fully as a function of wall shear stress. The Mooney technique was used together with a variation of the method where the shear rate for each die was subtracted from that for a non-slip flow, which was approximated using rough dies. A critical wall shear stress for slip was found to be 0.05-0.1 MPa, making it consistent with published results for other materials.El almidón y (os grannies de patata son materias usadas frecuentenmente en procesos de extrusion. Es importante cuantificar sus reologia para el control y prediccion del rendimiento de sus procesos. En este trabajo se ha estudiado el comportamiento de la compactacion de almidein de patata con un contenido de humedad de 4 a 18% (en peso base humeda) sometido de 1 a 85 MPa de presion.Se observo una disminucion en el esfuerzo de deformaci6n de Heckel con el incremento del contenido de humedad, hasta un 12%, sin embargo para un 18% perdio la exactitud.Tal decremento concuerda cualitativamente con observaciones previas en la disminucion de la rigidez de materiales almidonados en el intervalo de humedades mencionado. Tambi6n se examinaron granulos de patata con una humedad del 25 al 45%. (en peso base humeda) y se estudiaron sus -caracteristicas reol6gicas mediante diferentes modelos. Mediante el modelo de la ley de la potencia ' se obtuvo un bajo exponente para las pastas, del orden de 0.1 a 0.2. La ecuacion clasica de Benbow se emp]e6 para estimar los esfuerzos de corte y los de fluencia en tlujo capilar. Se observo un arrastre viscoso que se analiz6 que en fiinci6n del esfuerzo de corte en la pared. La tecnica de Mooney se utilizó, con la modificaci6n de que la velocidad de deformaci6n se substrae de la del flujo de no arrastre, usando orificios rugosos. Se encontro un esfuerzo critico de corte para el . arrastre viscoso del orden de 0.05 a 0.1 MPa, que concuerda con los valores publicados para otros materiales.Palabras claie: compactación, flujo, reologfa, extrusion, almidón de patata, griiiulos de patata * To aolrorrr correspolldcllcc slioiild be sm...
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