Abstract

Conditioning is a very important procedure for tobacco and tobacco products before their corresponding chemical and physical analysis. For cigarettes, forced air flow is generally required during the conditioning procedure. A special wind tunnel was designed to investigate how the forced air flow affects the conditioning of cigarettes in a constant climate laboratory. Two types of cigarettes with blended (including flue-cured and burley tobacco strands) and pure flue-cured tobacco strands were selected as test samples. It was found that the conditioning time to achieve the equilibrium could be shortened from 23 h without forced air flow to 7 h with a forced air flow rate of 2m/s. This is mainly due to the exchange of water molecules between cigarette samples and atmosphere being accelerated by applying the forced air flow. It was concluded that a 48 h conditioning period using the described forced air flow rate setup was unnecessary to attain the equilibrium for cigarettes. [Beitr. Tabakforsch. Int. 28 (2019) 224–229]

Details

Title
Conditioning of Tobacco and Tobacco Products: The Effect of Forced Air Flow
Author
Chen, Zhihao 1 ; Miao, Qian 1 ; Zhao, Jijun 1 ; Ding, Li 1 ; Xiao, Yan 2 ; Wang, Huiping 2 ; Qin, Yunhua 3 ; Xiong, Wen 3 ; Hong, Tao 4 ; Wang, Yu 4 ; Lv, Xiaodong 5 ; Qian, Feng 1 

 Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC, Zhengzhou450001, Henan, China 
 Yunnan Tobacco Quality Supervision & Test Station, Kunming650106, Yunnan, China 
 China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co. Ltd., Kunming650024, Yunnan, China 
 China Tobacco Guangdong Industrial Co. Ltd., Guangzhou510610, Guangdong, China 
 Shanghai Tobacco Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200082, Shanghai, China 
Pages
224-229
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
De Gruyter Poland
e-ISSN
27199509
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3155458856
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.