Assessment of airflow patterns inside six industrial beef carcass chillers

International Journal of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 463-475

  Mirade, Pierre Sylvain ^a   Picgirard, Laurent ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Association de Développement des Industries de la Viande   (France)

Author keywords

Air velocity; Batch chiller; Computational fluid dynamics; Continuous chiller; Plant operation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035534850     PISSN: 09505423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2621.2001.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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