Shrinkage of food materials during drying: Current status and challenges

M Mahiuddin, MIH Khan, C Kumar… - … Reviews in Food …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The structural heterogeneities of fruits and vegetables intensify the complexity to
comprehend the interrelated physicochemical changes that occur during drying. Shrinkage …

Machine learning‐based modeling in food processing applications: State of the art

MIH Khan, SS Sablani, R Nayak… - … reviews in food science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Food processing is a complex, multifaceted problem that requires substantial human
interaction to optimize the various process parameters to minimize energy consumption and …

Digital twins of food process operations: the next step for food process models?

P Verboven, T Defraeye, AK Datta, B Nicolai - Current Opinion in Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Digital twins have emerged recently as digital replicas of industrial
processes.•Physics-based food processinduce comprehensive mechanistic twins.•Digital …

Transport phenomena and their effect on microstructure of frozen fruits and vegetables

KP Alabi, Z Zhu, DW Sun - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Fresh fruits and vegetables have a short shelf life. Freezing offers a solution to
their long-term preservation. However, transport phenomena during freezing of fruits and …

Qsar in natural non-peptidic food-related compounds: current status and future perspective

Y Zhao, Y **a, Y Yu, G Liang - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Bioactive factors in functional foods play a crucial role in performing their
specific functions. These factors have their own specific physical and chemical properties …

Multiscale modeling of food thermal processing for insight, comprehension, and utilization of heat and mass transfer: A state-of-the-art review

J Li, Y Deng, W Xu, R Zhao, T Chen, M Wang… - Trends in Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Food materials have typical heterogeneity of microstructure and physical
properties, which brings difficulty in accurately determining the variable heat and mass …

Influence of hot water blanching and saline immersion period on the thermal effusivity and the drying kinetics of hybrid solar drying of sweet potato chips

NM Chinenye, DI Onyenwigwe, F Abam, B Lamrani… - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of adding pre-treatment to solar dried
sweet potato chips. The tested pre-treatments were blanching using hot water and saline …

Modelling of simultaneous heat and mass transfer considering the spatial distribution of air velocity during intermittent microwave convective drying

MIH Khan, Z Welsh, Y Gu, MA Karim… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drying is a complex simultaneous heat and mass transfer process where water is migrated
from the sample to the drying air through continuous evaporation. The rate of evaporation …

A mathematical model for predicting the transport process and quality changes during intermittent microwave convective drying

ND Pham, MIH Khan, MA Karim - Food chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Intermittent microwave convective drying (IMCD) is an advanced drying method where
volumetric heating of samples drives the drying process. Understanding of the physical …

Fundamental understanding of heat and mass transfer processes for physics-informed machine learning-based drying modelling

MIH Khan, CP Batuwatta-Gamage, MA Karim, YT Gu - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drying is a complex process of simultaneous heat, mass, and momentum transport
phenomena with continuous phase changes. Numerical modelling is one of the most …