Monitoring of beer filtration using photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS)

Journal of the Institute of Brewing

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 639-646

  Sensidoni, M ^a   Marconi, O ^a   Perretti, G ^a   Freeman, G ^b   Fantozzi, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b Campden BRI   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beer filtration; Exogenous enzymes; Particles size analysis; Photon correlation spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BEER; ENZYMES; FILTRATION; MEMBRANES; MICROFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CAKE FORMATION; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; FILTERING MEDIA; MEMBRANE SURFACE; PARTICLES SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLES SIZES; PHOTON CORRELATION; SECOND EFFECTS;

PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84857936501     PISSN: 00469750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2050-0416.2011.tb00516.x     Document Type: Article

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