par Debaste, Frédéric 
;Léonard, Angélique;Halloin, Véronique ;Haut, Benoît
Référence Journal of food engineering, 97, 4, page (526-532)
Publication Publié, 2010
;Léonard, Angélique;Halloin, Véronique ;Haut, Benoît Référence Journal of food engineering, 97, 4, page (526-532)
Publication Publié, 2010
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Drying behavior of baker’s yeast depends on the internal structure of the grain. In this paper, investigation of the porous structure of a dry grain using X-ray microtomography is presented. The resulting data are treated to deduce pore network characteristics for drying modeling . The treatment algorithm is based on segmentation kriging and medial axis calculation by thinning. Complementary informations are also calculated using auto-correlation function. The complete procedure is first tested on a virtual solid and then applied to yeast. The results present a large pore size distribution and a high connectivity between the pores. Both those effects can partially be attributed to the choice of the algorithms to deduce the pore network. |
