Commercial applications of powdered activated carbons for decolorizing food products such as fruit juice concentrates and sugar

CARB 100

Gavin Kahn, GavinKahn@attglobal.net, Carbochem, INC, 326 W. Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, PA 19003 and John R. Vercellotti, v-labs@v-labs.com, V-LABS, INC, 423 N. Theard Street, Covington, LA 70433.
Carbochem has developed proprietary grades of activated carbon from coal and wood to achieve specific pore and particle size distributions. Tailor-made carbons are used worldwide in sugar refining, hot melting of raw sugar prior to soft drink manufacturing, partitioning off-flavors such as 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from high fructose corn syrup, and deodorizing drinking water from algae blooms in reservoirs. Removal of colorants, off-flavors, mycotoxins, and pesticides from fruit juice concentrates will illustrate the complex impurities these carbons can resolve.
 

Recent Innovations in the Production of Sugar and Fuel Alcohol from Sugarcane and Sugarbeet in Memory of Margaret A. Clarke
2:00 PM-4:05 PM, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 223, Oral

Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008