Simulating and Measuring Transient Three-Dimensional Temperature Distributions in Microwave Processing

Innovative Food Processing Technologies: Advances in Multiphysics Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-153

  Knoerzer, Kai ^a   Regier, Marc ^b   Schubert, Helmar ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microwave heating, alternative to traditional heating methods in food manufacturing processes; Microwave thermal modeling interaction of EM waves (microwaves); Microwaves, heating food volumetrically and rapidly than conventional heating methods; Simulating and measuring transient three dimensional temperature distributions in microwave processing; Temperature measurement (mapping) methods in microwave fields; Thermal imaging cameras measuring thermal radiation patterns on surface of radiating object; Validated microwave heating models methodology, user friendly interface coupling two commercial software packages to model time dependent temperature profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860699046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959435.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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