FREEZEWAVE - Innovative and low energy microwave assisted freezing process for high quality foods

Epameinondas Xanthakis, Alain Le-Bail, Marie Shrestha, Lilia Ahrne, Jean Paul Bernard

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Abstract

FREEZEWAVE project proposes a highly innovative technique which showed that a small amount of emitted microwave energy combined to a slow freezing rate is able to refine ice crystal size in frozen meat. FREEZEWAVE project aims at expanding & optimizing the concept to several foods and also at designing industrial equipment. Herein, the structure and the directions of the project as well as the initial results of this study and the preliminary results of the previous study will be illustrated. More specifically, the application of microwaves during cooling the samples caused oscillated decrease of temperature and had a significant impact on the crystallization process as the degree of supercooling was decreased circa 92% under the tested conditions. The meat microstructure evaluation showed a 62% decrease in the average ice crystal size when samples were frozen under a microwave field as compared to the conventional freezing process.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Titel24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, ICR 2015
Antal sider7
ForlagInternational Institute of Refrigeration
Publikationsdato2015
Sider2580-2586
ISBN (Elektronisk)9782362150128
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2015
Udgivet eksterntJa
Begivenhed24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, ICR 2015 - Yokohama, Japan
Varighed: 16 aug. 201522 aug. 2015

Konference

Konference24th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration, ICR 2015
Land/OmrådeJapan
ByYokohama
Periode16/08/201522/08/2015
SponsorChemours, Daikin Industries Ltd., DENSO Corporation, et al., Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Fujitsu General Limited

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