Development of a timesaving leak detection method for brick-type packages

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-332

  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

Brick type packages; Leak detection; Online; Pressure differential

Indexed keywords

PACKAGING; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

BRICK-TYPE PACKAGES; PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL;

LEAK DETECTION;

INTERNET; LEAKAGE; PRESSURE;

EID: 34247365024     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2007.02.044     Document Type: Article

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