Development of an experimental procedure for real time investigation of diffusion in foods

Sensing and Instrumentation for Food Quality and Safety

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 78-89

  Samprovalaki, Konstantina ^a,b   Fryer, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Image analysis; Ohmic heating

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD; LOCALISATION; PROCESSING UNITS; REAL TIME; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; SMALL SCALE; TRANSFER PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FOOD PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 79959913812     PISSN: 19327587     EISSN: 19329954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11694-011-9114-8     Document Type: Article

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