Modeling and Simulation of Microwave Heating of Foods Under Different Process Schedules

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 738-749

  Campañone, Laura Analía ^a,b   Paola, Carlos A ^b   Mascheroni, Rodolfo H ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO EN CRIOTECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CIDCA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Convection; Cycles; Energy balance; Microwave heating; Simulation; Wave interference

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS OPERATION; COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; CYCLES; DIFFERENT PROCESS; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; FOOD HEATING; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; JOINT ACTIONS; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MULTI-PHYSICS; NONUNIFORM TEMPERATURE; OPERATION SCHEMES; PRODUCT SIZES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE HEATING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

HEATING;

EID: 84856585625     PISSN: 19355130     EISSN: 19355149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-010-0378-5     Document Type: Article

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