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Pressure-related cooling and freezing techniques for the food industry: fundamentals and applications
Zhiwei Zhu1,2,3, Tian Li1,2,3, Da-Wen Sun1,2,3,4
1School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Abstract:
Cooling and freezing are two widely used methods for food preservation. Conventional cooling and freezing techniques are usually with low efficiency and prone to damage foodstuffs. In order to increase cooling and freezing efficiencies and ensure better food quality, many efforts have been performed. As effective solutions, pressure-related techniques such as vacuum cooling (VC), vacuum film cooling (VFC), vacuum spray cooling (VSC), pressure shift freezing (PSF) and isochoric freezing (ICF) have attracted a lot of interests. The current review intends to provide an overview of pressure-related cooling and freezing techniques for the food industry. In the review, the fundamentals including principles, experimental systems, thermodynamic and kinetic mechanisms and their relevant mathematical models are presented, latest applications of these techniques in the food industry are summarized, and future trends concerning technological development and industrialization are highlighted. Pressure plays an important role in improving the cooling and freezing processes and ensuring food qualities, and mathematical modeling is an effective tool for understanding the thermodynamic and kinetic mechanisms of these processes. However, the latest researches showed that despite many merits of these pressure-related processes, limitations still exist in applying some of the techniques in the food industry. For achieving technological development and industrialization of the pressure-related processes, further researches should focus on improving model performance, integrating multiple technologies, and cost control.
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