Fish processing waste is rich in collagen and promising as a source of raw materials for the production of gelatin. Gelatin today remains one of the most popular collagens in various industries, while the main share in the Russian gelatin market is occupied by imported products. Given there are structural, mechanical and foam structural characteristics of gelatin extract, including from fish processing waste, one of the ways to increase the effectiveness of dried gelatin technology will be its radiation dehydration in foamy form. The formation of a stable foam structure leads to a significant intensification of the moisture removal operation due to the growth of the phase contact surface during transfer and exchange of thermal energy and substance, a decrease in adhesion between the drying object and the working surface of the unit and, as a result, to simplification of the separation of the dehydrated material from it and the elimination of the energy-intensive crushing operation finished products. The purpose of this research was to develop rational drying regimes of gelatin extract based on the study of kinetic laws of choosing ways to intensify the process of moisture removal. Foamed gelatin extract was dried in the form of round rods with volumetric convective and convective-radiation energy supply. Based on the results of experimental and analytical studies of convective and convective-radiation foam drying of gelatin, practical recommendations are given on the hardware design of the drying process, including the design of a complex convective-radiation drying installation, which is applicable both to the production of dry gelatin and similar complex properties thermolabile elastic-viscous, gel-like and paste-like materials.
Currently, fish gelatin is of special interest on the market of biopolymers due to its safety, natural protein composition, high quality indicators and compliance with ethno-cultural peculiarities of nutrition. It has individual features, including reduced thermostability. Physical modification that occurs under the influence of temperature and has an impact on the equilibrium process of globular and fibrillar conformation transitions was carried out in order to improve the functional and technological properties of fish gelatin. The object of the study was fish gelatin obtained using innovative technology from scales offish from the Volga-Caspian basin and commercial aquaculture facilities. Standard and original research methods were used in the study. Heat treatment was simulated depending on the temperature and duration of the process. Viscosity values variation of a 10% fish gelatin solution by 96.3% was caused by two factors. Influences caused by other factors are no more than 4 %. The possibility of structuring fish gelatin by high temperature treatment was determined. The rational mode of heat treatment is the temperature range from 125 to 130 °C. During the heat treatment at 135-140 °C, there is an increase in the duration of dissolution of fish gelatin and fragility of the plates along with a significant increase in the viscosity of solutions. Heat treatment of fish gelatin with residual moisture content of 10-16%, given the developed technological regimes and conditions, promotes the formation ofa polymer network (cross-linking), improving the consumer properties, performance of fish gelatin, and its hydrolytic stability.
The article presents the experience of implementation of the oil deposit development project for U1 reservoirs of the Zapadno-Tarkosalinsky oil and gas condensate field. Key features of geological structure and development parameters are considered, also the main problems and ways of their solution are revealed, as well as the obtained results of geological and hydrodynamic modeling and adaptation of models are presented.
Экспериментально-аналитически исследованы оптические и терморадиационные характеристики вспененного раствора желатина из отходов переработки рыбы как объекта инфракрасной (ИК, радиационной) сушки при двустороннем энергоподводе. Расчет оптических и терморадиационных характеристик исследуемого продукта проводился с использованием метода усредненных оптических и терморадиационных характеристик на основе эмпирических данных о направленно-полусферических терморадиационных характеристиках Rλ и Tλ, полученных на многофункциональном спектрофотометре PHOTON RT. В результате исследований и расчетов для вспененного раствора желатина найдены зависимости коэффициента эффективного ослабления потока излучения по мере распространения в оптически бесконечно толстом слое L, м-1, и распределения объемной плотности поглощенной энергии излучения по глубине оптически тонкого слоя W, Вт/м3, от влажности продукта w, кг/кг, и координаты толщины пенослоя x, м. Выполнен анализ зависимости распределения объемной плотности поглощенной энергии излучения по глубине оптически тонкого слоя от координаты толщины слоя и влажности продукта. В результате экспериментально-аналитического изучения оптических и терморадиационных характеристик вспененного раствора желатина с учетом объемной плотности поглощенной энергии излучения по глубине слоя выбраны инфракрасные излучатели, режимы их работы, в том числе оптимальный диапазон длины волны λ, мкм, соответствующий максимальной интенсивности излучения и максимальной пропускательной способности продукта, а также оптически тонкий слой h, м, наиболее рациональный для высокоинтенсивной сушки.