DECOLORACION DE LA CERA DURA DE CANA DE AZUCAR POR VIA FISICA CON BENTONITA NATURAL ACTIVADA

Abstract

The present article treats on the decoloration of the wax It endures of cane by physical path employing as adsorbent in fixed bed natural small @bentonita@ activated. It is determined experimentally the physical ownership-chemistries of the wax endures, fusion point, viscosity, color and shine rather and after is decolorized the waxlas. It is unrolled an intervening experimental design a factorial plan 2 k, defining as operation variables in the decoloration process by physical path, the particle diameter, the alcohol relation/wax and the height of the adsorbent bed of, as variable answer the physical ownership-chemistries of the wax once decolorized, saponification index, viscosity, shine, color and fusion pointiante.The experimental results are indicted statisticsly in each case, the adequate mathematical models that define the dependence of the process variables of in the physical modifications chemistries of the wax after be this decolorized, moreover the better operation conditions as result of the optimization of the mathematical models.