Estudo teorico-experimental do resfriamento de laranja e banana com ar forçado / Experimental and theorical study of orange and banana with forced air cooling

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000

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This work states a study for the obtaining of the cooling curves and of the convective heat transfer coefficient of geometrical different ftuits (orange and banana). The ftuits were cooled in a system of forced air to the temperature of 1°C and 7°C relative humidity between 87-88%. The cooler system was projected to guarantee three flows of air, being evaluated the cooler of the fruits submitted to flows of6; 7,5 and 10 m3/h.The fruits were conditioned in two package, with effective passage area ofthe air varying from 40% to 3,5%. For the collection of the experimental data it was applied an experimental random non-alignment, in an factorial scheme 3x2 for the experiments with orange and an factorial scheme 2x2, in the experiments with bananas. The level of statistical significant adopted for the analysis of the results was of 10%. Other measurements were developed for characterize the reason of aspects of the fruits, and to evaluate the losses of weight of the fruits after the cooler. A mathematical bidimensional modei, in prolate spheroid coordinates, was adapted and applied to characterize the conduction of heat transient inside of the ftuit, being assumed boundary condition convective in the surface of the body and constant diffusion coefficient. The generated equations was numerical solved for the finite-volume method or, and the linear equations set was solved iteratively utilizing the Gauss-Seidel method. The apparent heat transfer convective coefficient was obtained by adjustment, applying the square minimum method. The model predicts the internal distribution of temperature in the fruits, as well as the medium temperature along the cooling processoThe appropriate agreement among the experimental and numeric results, they allow to affirm that the model proposed it characterizes the of cooling process of the fruits appropriately used in the experiments, as well as the values of the apparent heat transfer convective coefficient of value obtained by the adjustment. Economical calculations were also developed, that allowed to obtain the total cost of cooling of orange in systems with forced- air cooling, being compared with it costs in room cooling systems

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frutas air flow temperatura frutas - conservação custo-beneficio embalagens calor - transmissão heat resfriamento cooling mathematical models packaging temperature modelos matematicos ar - escoamento

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