Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in Pulsed Electric Field Preservation of Liquid Foods

Innovative Food Processing Technologies: Advances in Multiphysics Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-207

  Meneses, Nicolás ^a   Jaeger, Henry ^a   Knorr, Dietrich ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFD application using commercial software packages for simulating PEF processing; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applied in pulsed electric field preservation of liquid foods; Equation system using steady state solver in COMSOL Multiphysics; Geometric domain and numerical mesh unsteady state simulation; Homogeneity of PEF treatment continuous treatment chamber linked to electric field; Key aspect of maximum PEF effectiveness performance of treatment chamber; Partial differential equations solved using time dependent solver in COMSOL Multiphysics ; Pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment a nonthermal food preservation technology; Unsteady simulation of PEF batch processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886191079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959435.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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