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Juan P Martínez-Val1, Alberto Ramos2
1Túnel de Frío, Fundación para el Fomento de la Innovación Industrial, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Transportation of perishable foodstuff is an engineering and commercial activity ruled by an international Agreement (the ATP) that needs an updated regulation. Before addressing such updating, some analyses are required about the physics of the problem, in order to identify the optimum use of the available technologies and the advantages represented by new methodologies that could be enabled soon. It is worth pointing out that manufacturers of ATP equipment follow quite closely the prescriptions given by this Agreement. So, optimizing those prescriptions will generate a general optimization trend in this sector. In this paper, a coherent analysis on these subjects is presented, and a new coefficient is proposed for qualifying ATP units, and some new tests are also proposed for measuring that coefficient in an efficient and inexpensive way. These goals are justified in this paper as a contribution from basic physics to a particular domain of Thermal Engineering. The paper is intended to be a bridge from Science to Technology, which is a must to get optimum results in exploiting technical knowledge.
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