Professor David Moldenhauer is a Fellow of Robinson College and Professor of Process Innovation at the University of Cambridge who has pioneered new methods for shaping chocolate through extrusion and other non-traditional forming techniques by applying his scientific understanding of chocolate's properties and microstructure to invent innovative processing methods.
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3. Professor of Process Innovation
Department of Chemical Engineering
and Biotechnology
University of Cambridge
4. 1965
O Levels; Gravesend Technical High School
1967
A Levels; Bath Technical College
1969
BSc Physics; Leicester University
1972
PhD; Polymer Physics; Bristol University
1976
Lecturer in Material Science; University of Sussex
1979
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge
1994 Chocolate
15. Melting
Chocolate
100
liquid
80
60
solid
soft
Proportion of 40
fat that is
liquid 20 hard
solid
( percent )
0
-10 0 10 20 30 40 50
Temperature of
chocolate
(degrees.C )
16. Traditional chocolate forming
i
mxing
ixin
heating to
about 400C
pouri cooling tunnels
from300C to 180C
ng
eating!
de-moulding
The chocolate
m be heated
ust
to m the fat so that it
elt
can be poured into moulds.
It m then be cooled to about 18oC
ust
before it can be removed fromthe mould.
The whole process takes about thirty minutes.
17. Extrusion processing
Polyethylene
Cold Melt
Extrusion Processing
H
50 100 150 200
Temperature 0C
Chocolate
Cold Melt
Extrusion Processing
H
10 20 30 40
0
Temperature C
28. Cold extrusion of semi solid chocolate
Typical Pressure v/s Time trace
Piston/(ram)
A Yield
pressure Chocolate feed
Pressure
transducer
Die
P
(bar)
B Extrusion pressure
C
Compaction
(no flow)
Milk choc at 20 oC t (s)
30. 15
Ex trusion 10
Pre ssure
M Pa
5
0
10 15 20 25 30
Te mp e rature 0C
31. Mechanism.
Rate of doing work = Rate of heat generation
P A x = A x Cp T
PA = pressure x area = force
x
= velocity
= density
Cp = Specific heat
T = temperature increase
P
T =
Cp
100 10 5
T = = 6.9 0C
1, 200 1,200
33. Another calculation
P Ax P
Rate of work done/kg = =
Ax
Work done/kg in melting mass fraction of cocoa butter
=了
了 = latent heat of melting / kg
Equate P
=了
P 10 7
= = 3 = 5.5%
了 1,200x150x10
34. 100
%
Liquid
Fat
50
Microstructure
change
adiab atic heating
0
10 20 30
T e m pe ra ture Centigrade
/
36. The
mechanism
2: As flow
begins Sub-micron
internal slip
planes allow
plastic flow.
Some crystals
melt
Some fat
migrates to
walls, reducing
friction and
easing flow