Reduction of refrigeration energy consumption and environmental impacts in food retailing

Handbook of Water and Energy Management in Food Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 585-611

  Tassou, Savvas ^a   Ge, Yunting ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

FOOD RETAILING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 71849109415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9781845694678.4.585     Document Type: Chapter

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