Determination of the product refrigeration load in vacuum cooling of lettuce

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 459-464

  Rennie, T J ^a,d   Raghavan, G S V ^a,c,d   Vigneault, C ^b,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRIGERATION LOAD; VACUUM COOLING;

COOLING; EVAPORATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REFRIGERATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL LOAD; THERMOCOUPLES; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

LACTUCA; SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 0034261996     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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