PET bottles seal quality testing using an on-line pressure differential detector

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 645-654

  Sivaramakrishna, Vijaykrishna ^a   Raspante, Frank ^b   Palaniappan, Sevugan ^c   Pascall, Melvin A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TapTone Package Inspection   (United States)

^c The Coca Cola Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottles; Leak detection; Online; Pressure differential

Indexed keywords

PLASTIC BOTTLES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEALS;

HEADSPACE ANALYSIS; LEAK TESTERS; NON DESTRUCTIVE LEAK TESTERS; SEALING QUALITY;

LEAK DETECTION;

LEAK PROOF CONTAINERS; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; PRESSURE;

EID: 33845352489     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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