A theoretical procedure for using multiple response time - Temperature integrators for the design and evaluation of thermal processes

Food Control

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 279-287

  Stoforos, Nikolaos G ^a   Taoukis, Petros S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multiple component TTI; Multiple response TTI; Sterilisation; Thermal processing; Time Temperature integrators; TTI

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032187589     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-7135(98)00017-6     Document Type: Article

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