A comparative study on the performance of three treatment chamber designs for radio frequency electric field processing

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 108, Issue , 2018, Pages 206-216

  Masood, Hassan ^a   Diao, Yangchun ^a   Cullen, Patrick J ^a   Lee, Nanju Alice ^a   Trujillo, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chamber design; Homogeneity; Inactivation; Multiphysics simulations; Pulsed electric fields; Radio frequency

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RADIO WAVES;

CHAMBER DESIGN; HOMOGENEITY; INACTIVATION; MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATIONS; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 85033718867     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2017.09.009     Document Type: Article

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