Effects of Packaging Geometry on Heat Penetration Time in Retortable Semi-Rigid Plastic Trays
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Effects of Packaging Geometry on Heat Penetration Time in Retortable Semi-Rigid Plastic Trays |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Curtis H. Stowe; ConAgra Foods, Inc., Six ConAgra Drive Omaha, NE, USA |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Gordon L. Smith; Department of Grain Sciences and Industry, Kansas State University, Shellenberger Hall Manhattan, KS, USA |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Ronald L. Thomas; Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences, Clemson University, Poole & Agricultural Center, Clemson, South Carolina, USA |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | William S. Whiteside; Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences, Clemson University, Poole & Agricultural Center, Clemson, South Carolina, USA |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | (doi: 10.23953/cloud.ijapt.26) |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Retort Trays; Heat Transfer; Thermal Processing; Packaging |
| 4. | Description | Abstract |
Semi-rigid, retortable trays were filled with a food simulate and thermally processed in a water immersion automated batch retort system at rotational speeds of 6 RPM and 11 RPM. Triangle, rectangle, oval, and round trays were evaluated, each having approximately the same overflow capacity. During processing, trays were fixed in place with racks containing one shape per rack. Various rack location combinations were tested to provide processing data for each shape in each rack location. Heat penetration data was gathered using thermocouples located in the geometric center of each tray shape and this data was modeled to determine the slowest heating container. No differences were observed in rack location among tray geometries at either RPM level (P>0.05). The data generated during heat penetration runs was also used to model different retort temperatures and lethality values. A retort temperature of 215°F and a lethality value of 10 showed the highest average sterilization time (P<0.05) and these conditions were subsequently used for evaluation of tray geometry during thermal processing. At a rotational speed of 6 RPM, the average time to lethally was higher (P<0.05) for the triangle shaped tray than the rectangle and round shaped trays while the average process time to lethality for the oval tray was not different (P>0.05) than any other shape tray. At a rotational speed of 11 RPM, differences in average process time to reach lethality between tray geometries were insignificant (P>0.05). |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2016-10-15 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 8. | Type | Type | |
| 9. | Format | File format | |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | http://technical.cloud-journals.com/index.php/IJAPT/article/view/Tech-638 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.23953/Tech-638 |
| 11. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | International Journal of Advanced Packaging Technology; Vol 4, No 1 (2016) |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
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