Recent advances in agitation thermal processing

AP Singh, PPL Yen, HS Ramaswamy… - Current Opinion in Food …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Recent advances in agitation thermal processing is reviewed.•Various
mechanisms of agitation are discussed.•Challenges in data collection methodologies are …

Heat transfer phenomena during thermal processing of liquid particulate mixtures—A review

AP Singh, A Singh, HS Ramaswamy - Critical reviews in food …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
During the past few decades, food industry has explored various novel thermal and non-
thermal processing technologies to minimize the associated high-quality loss involved in …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of viscosity on the thermal behavior of fluids in a sealed can

T Ramamurthy, S Krishnan - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Homogeneous fruit juice in a sealed container available in the commercial market exhibits
some degree of non-Newtonian behavior with a wide viscosity range. During thermal …

Effect of processing conditions on quality of green beans subjected to reciprocating agitation thermal processing

A Singh, AP Singh, HS Ramaswamy - Food Research International, 2015 - Elsevier
The effect of reciprocating agitation thermal processing (RA-TP) on quality of canned beans
was evaluated in a lab-scale reciprocating retort. Green beans were selected due to their …

A computational study on heat transfer characteristics of particulate canned foods during end-over-end rotational agitation: Effect of rotation rate and viscosity

F Sarghini, F Erdogdu - Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract End-over-end (EoE) rotation is a common type of mechanical agitation used in
canning sterilization process to increase heating rates, enabling reductions in processing …

Effect of can orientation on heat transfer coefficients associated with liquid particulate mixtures during reciprocation agitation thermal processing

AP Singh, HS Ramaswamy - Food and Bioprocess Technology, 2015 - Springer
The objective of this work was to study the effect of container orientation on heat transfer
during reciprocation agitation thermal processing of cans filled with liquid particulate …

Simultaneous optimization of heat transfer and reciprocation intensity for thermal processing of liquid particulate mixtures undergoing reciprocating agitation

AP Singh, HS Ramaswamy - Innovative food science & emerging …, 2016 - Elsevier
Simultaneous optimization of heat transfer and reciprocation intensity (RI) was carried out for
reciprocating agitation thermal processing (RA-TP) of liquid-particulate foods. Heat transfer …

Simultaneous multi-product sterilization: Revisited, explored, and optimized

R Simpson, C Ramirez, D Jiménez, S Almonacid… - Journal of Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
An interesting potential improvement and challenge in thermal processing of packaged
foods is the implementation of simultaneous multi-product sterilization. The aim of this …

Improving prediction of temperature profiles of packaged food during retort processing

S Zhu, B Li, G Chen - Journal of Food Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract A one-dimensional (1D) apparent position (AP) numerical solution (APNS) method
was previously proposed to predict the evolution of temperature at the slowest heating point …