Study on moisture sorption process model and application traditional Chinese medicine extract powder / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>Study on the moisture sorption process characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine extract powder, to establish a mathematical model, provide a new method for in-depth study for moisture sorption behavior of traditional Chinese medicine extract powder and a reference for determine the production cycle, and predict product stability.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Analyzed moisture absorption process of traditional Chinese medicine extract powder by utilized the law of conservation of mass and Fick's first law to establish the double exponential absorption model, fitted the moisture absorption data and compared with other commonly used five kinds of model to estimate the double-exponential absorption model.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>The statistical analysis showed that the coefficient of determination (R2) of double exponential model, Weibull distribution model and first order kinetics model were large, but the residues sum of squares (RSS) and AIC values were small. Synthesized the practical application meaning, we consided that the double exponential model was more suitable for simulating the process of Chinese medicine extract powder moisture absorption.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The double exponential is suitable for characterization the process of traditional Chinese medicine extract moisture absorption.</p>