Food Preservation by Pulsed Electric Fields: An Engineering Perspective

Food Engineering Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 94-107

  Morales de la Pena M ^a   Elez Martinez P ^a   Martin Belloso O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food preservation; Modeling; Pulsed electric fields; Scale up; Treatment chambers

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER DESIGN; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; HIGH QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTATION; LATEST DEVELOPMENT; LIQUID FOOD; MICROBIOLOGICAL STABILITY; MODELING CONCEPTS; NONTHERMAL; PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; SCALE-UP; SCALING-UP; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TREATMENT CHAMBERS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOOD PRESERVATIVES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; TECHNOLOGY;

FOOD PRESERVATION;

EID: 79958035836     PISSN: 18667910     EISSN: 18667929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12393-011-9035-7     Document Type: Review

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