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Fardin Tamjidi

Fardin Tamjidi

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 55336740600
Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture
Address: Agriculture Faculty, University of Kurdistan, PO Box 416, Sanandaj 66177-15175, Iran
Phone: +988733620552

Research

Title
Mixture Design Approach for Evaluation of Fish Oil Microencapsulation in Gelatin-Acacia Gum Coacervates
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Complex coacervation, encapsulation, formula design, long chain omega-3, optimization
Year
2013
Journal International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials
DOI
Researchers Fardin Tamjidi ، Ali Nasirpour ، Mohammad Shahedi

Abstract

Fish oil (FO) was microencapsulated in gelatin (G)-acacia gum (AG) coacervates. To achieve maximum amounts of microencapsulation efficiency (ME) and oil content of microcapsules (OCM), a D-optimal mixture design was used to determine optimum mixtures of formula composition. Moreover, particles size of microcapsules in some formulas was measured. Suitable ME and OCM could be achieved when encapsulants concentration, G/AG ratio, and encapsulants/FO ratio were between 3.2% and 6.7% w/w and in the ranges of 1.50–3.03 and 0.50–1.66, respectively. The particles had a mean diameter in the range of 6.84–13.59 µm.