Isomerization of galactose in arginine solution and effect of ethanol addition
摘要
Kinetics of tagatose formation from galactose in arginine solution at various temperatures and the effect of ethanol concentration on tagatose yield were investigated. A solution containing 5% (w/v) galactose and arginine 0.10 mol/mol-galactose was treated at 90 − 120 °C. Tagatose reached a constant yield of approximately 17% at 90, 35, 15, and 7 min at 90, 100, 110, and 120 °C. The initial rate method showed that tagatose formation greatly increased with temperature. The activation energy from the Arrhenius equation for tagatose formation was 61.5 kJ/mol. Arginine also degraded faster at higher temperatures. In addition, the effect of adding 5 − 40 wt% ethanol to galactose-arginine solution was investigated at 120 °C for 15 min. Increasing ethanol concentration to 10% resulted in a slightly higher tagatose yield of 19% compared to 17.5% without ethanol addition. However, 40 wt% ethanol suppressed the conversion of galactose and significantly lowered the tagatose yield.