On-line correction of process temperature deviations in continuous retorts

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 258-269

  Chen, Guibing ^a   Campanella, Osvaldo H ^a   Corvalan, Carlos M ^a   Haley, Timothy A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bush Brothers and Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous retorts; Control algorithms; Fixed point; On line correction; Process temperature deviations; Worst case

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD PROCESSING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS RETORTS; FIXED POINT ALGORITHMS; ON-LINE CORRECTION; PROCESS TEMPERATURE DEVIATIONS; WORST CASE ALGORITHMS;

TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

EID: 34547577722     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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