Cooling parameters for fruits and vegetables of different sizes in a hydrocooling system;Parâmetros de resfriamento de frutas e hortaliças de diferentes dimensões em um sistema com água fria

Scientia Agricola

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 655-658

  Teruel, Bárbara ^a   Kieckbusch, Theo ^a   Cortez, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cooling time; Product volume; Sphericity

Indexed keywords

EID: 40049095594     PISSN: 01039016     EISSN: 1678992X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0103-90162004000600014     Document Type: Article

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