TY - JOUR
T1 - Caking behaviour of spray-dried milk powders
T2 - using scanning probe microscopy to study nanoscale surface properties and material composition
AU - Prime, D.C.
AU - Leaper, Mark
AU - Jones, J.R.
AU - Richardson, D.J.
AU - Rielly, C.D.
AU - Stapley, A.G.F.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Spray drying is widely used to manufacture many powdered products, with the drying process parameters having significant influence over the final powder's surface properties and propensity for unwanted caking. In most cases caking experiments are performed on bulk powders, but especially in multi-component powders, it is often difficult to interpret these results, where interaction effects between particles can be complex. Here the technique of scanning probe microscopy is used to characterize the nanoscale properties of spray dried model milk powders in order to investigate the surface properties of the powders.
AB - Spray drying is widely used to manufacture many powdered products, with the drying process parameters having significant influence over the final powder's surface properties and propensity for unwanted caking. In most cases caking experiments are performed on bulk powders, but especially in multi-component powders, it is often difficult to interpret these results, where interaction effects between particles can be complex. Here the technique of scanning probe microscopy is used to characterize the nanoscale properties of spray dried model milk powders in order to investigate the surface properties of the powders.
KW - atomic force microscopy
KW - caking
KW - scanning probe microscopy
KW - skimmed milk powder
KW - surface properties
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959717371&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ceat.201000537/abstract
U2 - 10.1002/ceat.201000537
DO - 10.1002/ceat.201000537
M3 - Article
SN - 0930-7516
VL - 34
SP - 1104
EP - 1108
JO - Chemical Engineering and Technology
JF - Chemical Engineering and Technology
IS - 7
ER -