Cooling of Fresh Vegetable Farm Produce: Experimental and Numerical Studies
| Main Authors: | Hala Yassine, Hervé Noel, Pascal Le Bideau, Patrick Glouannec |
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| Format: | Article eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2013
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/1087568 |
Daftar Isi:
- Following harvest, fresh produce needs to be cooled immediately in a room where the air temperature and the relative air humidity are controlled to maintain the produce quality. In this paper, an experimental study for forced air cooling of fresh produce (cauliflower) is performed using a pilot developed within our laboratory. Furthermore, a numerical simulation of spherical produces, taking into account the aerodynamic aspect and also the heat transfer in the produce and in the air, was carried out using a finite element method. At the end of this communication, experimental results are presented and compared with the simulation.