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Experimental Study of Thermal Performance of Different Fruit Packaging Box Designs

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dc.contributor.authorLeitão, Fábio António Soares Pinto
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Pedro D.
dc.contributor.authorGaspar, Pedro Dinis
dc.contributor.authorPires, Luís C.
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-29T09:57:17Z
dc.date.available2022-03-29T09:57:17Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractPackaging was recently identified as an essential element in addressing the key challenge of sustainable food supply and is gaining interest among researchers. It is a central element in food quality preservation due to its role in heat and mass exchange with the external atmosphere, contributing to the preservation of food quality during storage and extending food shelf life. This work proposes three new packaging configurations with the same size but different geometry and ventilation hole sizes and geometry, that change the conditions in which the heat and mass exchange occurs, during either the cooling period of fruits, inside the cooling chamber, or during the period when the packaging is exposed to ambient conditions, outside the cooling chamber. For this purpose, packages with fruit models that replicate the properties of real fruit were subjected to a cooling process inside a cooling chamber for 8 h. Subsequently, during the heating phase, the packages were exposed to ambient conditions for 10 h. Thermal conditions were also monitored, both inside and outside the chamber. Additionally, for comparative purposes, the thermal behavior of commercial packaging was also evaluated for the same operating conditions in the cooling and heating phases. The results show that the new packages do not substantially promote the preservation of fruits in the cooling phase, but in the heating phase, they ensure an extension of the period with proper thermal conditions of up to 50% in relation to the conventional packaging. This result is particularly important since the heating phase, in which fruits are outside the storage chamber, is the period with the greatest impact on the fruits’ useful life.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was conducted within the activities of project “Pack2Life—High performance packaging”, project IDT in consortium n. 33792, call n. 03/SI/2017, Ref. POCI-01-0247-FEDER- 033792, promoted by COMPETE 2020 and co-funded by FEDER within Portugal 2020. The authors are grateful for the opportunity and financial support to continue this project to Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and R&D Unit “Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies” (C-MAST), under project UIDB/00151/2020.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was conducted within the activities of project “Pack2Life—High performance packaging”, project IDT in consortium n.◦ 33792, call n.◦ 03/SI/2017, Ref. POCI-01-0247-FEDER033792, promoted by COMPETE 2020 and co-funded by FEDER within Portugal 2020. The authors are grateful for the opportunity and financial support to continue this project to Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and R&D Unit “Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies” (C-MAST), under project UIDB/00151/2020.
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/en14123588pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/12126
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relationCentre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectFruit Packaging Boxpt_PT
dc.subjectThermal Performancept_PT
dc.subjectExperimental Studypt_PT
dc.titleExperimental Study of Thermal Performance of Different Fruit Packaging Box Designspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.awardTitleCentre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00151%2F2020/PT
oaire.citation.issue12pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage3588pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEnergiespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume14pt_PT
oaire.fundingStream6817 - DCRRNI ID
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project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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