General Processes Employed

EMCs are generally manufactured from cheese pastes that are made from the cheese of the same type. Additional components such as butterfat or cream may be added to add extra precursors when appropriate. Noncheese ingredients such as MSG, yeast extract, diacetyl, or other flavorants may also be added, but they may have to be declared on the label of the final product. Consistency in this base material is critical to the production of a standardized EMC product. Off-flavors may develop during incubation of the paste/enzyme slurry since the conditions are optimal for microbial growth. Equipment must be sterilized and precautions taken to prohibit miCTobial contamination. Bacterial inhibitors such as nitrates, sorbate, or nicin may be used. Free fatty acids generated by lipase enzymes afford some inhibition. Incubation time and temperature influence enzyme action and must be carefully controlled. 

As noted earlier, the inactivation of residual enzymes to terminate the reaction is critical to flavor stability. The heat treattnent must be adequate to inactivate the enzymes but not cause undesirable flavor changes. One should note that commercial enzyme preparations used in manufacturing may contain enzymes other than the primary enzyme(s) these are crude preparations as opposed to reagent grade enzyme preparations. For example, West [48] noted that pancreatic lipase preparations may contain amylases that can cause undesirable changes in flavor and texture in the finished product if not inactivated. 

It is claimed that the use of EMCs can result in considerable raw material cost savings since up to 50% of cheese solids in many product formulations can be replaced by a small quantity of EMC. Their use also enables food processors to adjust any variable flavor in natural cheese included in their product. They are of particular value in (a) processed cheese, (b) cheese powders, (c) cheese snacks, (d) pizza sauce, (e) cheese biscuits, (f) cheese spreads, (g) quiche, and (h) dips. The rate of addition is directly related to the profile of the natural cheese present and the strength required in the end product. On average, the recommended use rate is 1 to 3% of the total recipe weight. EMCs should be stored at 2 to 6°C and used within 6 months from date of manufacture. 

Similar to the process flavors discussed earlier, EM dairy products are the result of the application of science plus substantial trial and error (i.e., art). Flavor character is dependent the starting materials, the enzymes added, the incnbation conditions, 

Cut and grind the cheese, add water and emulsifiers to make a cheese sluiry, and pasteurize (85°C for 30 min) 

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The experiments described in Part I have been numbered, as they form a graded series to illustrate the chief manipulative processes employed in practical organic chemistry. The experiments in Parts II-V have not been numbered, as in general a selection must be made from them. In each part of the book, the experiments have been arranged as far as possible in logical order, although occasionally (as in Part IV) this is not necessarily the order of increasing difficulty. 

Continuous clarifiers generally are employed with dilute suspensions, principally industrial process streams and domestic municipal wastes, and their primary purpose is to produce a relatively clear overflow. They are basically identical to thickeners in design and layout except that they employ a mechanism of hghter construction and a drive head with a lower torque capability. These differences are permitted in clarification applications because the thickened pulp produced is smaller in volume and appreciably lower in suspended solids concentration, owing in part to the large percentage of relatively fine (smaller than 10 Im) solids. The installed cost of a clarifier, therefore, is approximately 5 to 10 percent less than that of a thickener of equal tank size, as given in Fig. 18-94. 

Spirits manufacturing is a sophisticated technology, but in general process operations are less complex and demanding as in the case of oil refinery operations. Often the technology may be described as being closer to an art as opposed to an exact science, but clearly engineering principles for distillation, filtration and batchwise type operations are meticulously employed. 

In certain cases rinsing may be dispensed with after non-accelerated phosphate treatment, but blistering of paint due to local concentration of solution in seams and crevices may occur. Rinsing is generally applied, regardless of the type of phosphate process employed... 

In general, the O-alkylation of benzoxepinones is accomplished via the anion. Alternatively, an acid-catalyzed process employing ortho esters may be used. For the acid-catalyzed formal O-alkylation of l-chloro-8-methoxydibenz[ft,/]oxepin-10(ll//)-ones with triethyl orthoformate rather drastic conditions are required (hot concentrated sulfuric acid) to give the 10-ethoxy derivative 12 in excellent yield.109... 

The Ziegler process produces linear alcohols with an even number of carbon atoms and is based on the polymerization of ethylene under catalytic conditions, generally with triethylaluminum as in the Alfol and the Ethyl processes. The distribution of alkyl chains depends on the version of the process employed but the alcohols obtained after fractionation can be equivalent to those obtained from fats and oils or have purpose-made distributions depending on the fractionation conditions. 

Toxic pollutants found in the mercury cell wastewater stream include mercury and some heavy metals like chromium and others stated in Table 22.8, some of them are corrosion products of reactions between chlorine and the plant materials of construction. Virtually, most of these pollutants are generally removed by sulfide precipitation followed by settling or filtration. Prior to treatment, sodium hydrosulfide is used to precipitate mercury sulfide, which is removed through filtration process in the wastewater stream. The tail gas scrubber water is often recycled as brine make-up water. Reduction, adsorption on activated carbon, ion exchange, and some chemical treatments are some of the processes employed in the treatment of wastewater in this cell. Sodium salts such as sodium bisulfite, sodium hydrosulfite, sodium sulfide, and sodium borohydride are also employed in the treatment of the wastewater in this cell28 (Figure 22.5). 

The most common sol-gel process employs metal alkoxides of network forming elements (M(0R) where M is Si, B, Ti, Al, etc. and R is often an alkyl group) as monomeric precursors. In alcohol/water solutions the alkoxide groups are removed stepwise by hydrolysis reactions, generally employing acid or base catalysts, and are... 

BIOX [biological oxidation] A general term for effluent treatment processes employing biological oxidation, such as the Activated Sludge process. 

An alternative general process involves coextraction of palladium and platinum, followed by selective stripping (see Fig. 11.12). A novel amino acid extractant, made by the reaction between chloracetic acid and Amberlite LA-2, a secondary amine, is used to extract the two elements from the leach liquor. However, in the given flow sheet, no selective stripping is employed, both elements being stripped by hydrochloric acid. The resulting chloroanions are then separated by using di- -hexylsulfide to extract PdCll. ... 

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