There is an inevitable demand for attempts to be made regarding hydration process enhancement of agricultural products. In this realm, application of cutting‐edge ultrasound technology has been recently arisen as promising tool. This investigation covers thermodynamic aspects of the effect of ultrasonication on hydration mechanism of wheat. The hydration process was performed at five hydration temperatures of 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 °C in ultrasonication conditions named control (without ultrasound treatment), US1 (25 kHz, 360 W), and US2 (40 kHz, 480 W). Thermodynamic parameters of activation energy, enthalpy, entropy, and the Gibbs free energy during hydration process were then determined. In accordance with obtained values of the parameters, it can be addressed that ultrasound‐assisted hydration process was endothermic reaction corresponds to an increase in system order as well as it was not spontaneous for each experimental hydration temperature and ultrasonication condition. It should be also pointed out that ultrasonication condition reduced activation energy, enthalpy change, and the Gibbs free energy change by approximately 15, 17, and 9%, respectively. However, it increased entropy change by approximately 9% for all hydration temperatures.
Practical applications
The outcome of this attempt could be served as a tool for deep root understanding of heat and mass transfer phenomena during ultrasound‐assisted hydration process of wheat kernel in seed priming, flour milling (tempering), making dough, and wet storage processes.