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Sonocrystallization of Lactose

Theory, Practice, and Future Directions

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Sonocrystallization as an emerging science and technology has great potential to improve and change current methods of processing, resulting in significant cost and energy savings and opening up new applications in lactose crystallization.

Lactose crystallization is reported to be slow and unpredictable. Seeding is not used in industry and nucleation is achieved by rapid cooling. The problem with conventional lactose crystallization is long induction times and large metastable zone width which makes the process unpredictable and difficult to control. Therefore, improved control of the lactose crystallization process has particular significance for the dairy industry.

In the last 10 years, there have been a significant number of reported applications of ultrasound in lactose crystallization. Most of the work reported utilized ethanol as anti-solvent to provide methods of whey proteins and lactose recovery without concentrating to high solid content. More recently, sonocrystallization from aqueous lactose solutions and concentrated whey has been reported for pharmaceutical and food industry applications. With the availability of equipment of industrial scale, it is anticipated that sonocrystallization of lactose in industrial scale may become a reality in the near future.

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  1. Food Science and Technology Program, School of Public Health, Faculty of health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Tuna D. Dincer

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Dincer, T., Zisu, B. (2015). Sonocrystallization of Lactose. In: Ashokkumar, M. (eds) Handbook of Ultrasonics and Sonochemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-470-2_71-1

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