Concentration and Temperature Dependences of Effective Ethanol Vapor Permeance of Plastic Films Utilized in Controlled Release-Based Active Packaging for Horticultural Products

Weerawate Utto; Rittirong Pruthtikul; Patcharee Malila; Athapol Noomhorm; John E. Bronlund

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.718.45

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Concentration and Temperature Dependences of Effective Ethanol Vapor Permeance of Plastic Films Utilized in Controlled Release-Based Active Packaging for Horticultural Products

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In the present work effective film permeances to ethanol vapor (FPE) of Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) and Nylon/PE films were determined in relations to ethanol vapor concentrations and storage temperatures (10°C and 25°C). The FPE was characterized using the isostatic and the gravimetric methods. The values of FPE show dependences on both storage temperatures and ethanol vapor concentration (0.25-3.17 mol⋅m^-3). Experimental data on FPE were well predicted with the exponential growth model with Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) value in a range of 0.0002-0.005. At comparable ethanol vapor concentration, research findings show that (i) average permeances of LDPE were higher than those of Nylon/PE, and, (2) the effective permeances measured at 10°C, for each films, were higher than those measured at 25°C, except the permeance of LDPE film measured at 10°C using 0.6-0.7 mol⋅m^-3 was lower than that measured at 25°C.

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Weerawate Utto*, Rittirong Pruthtikul, Patcharee Malila, Athapol Noomhorm, John E. Bronlund

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