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EPSRC Reference: GR/R94435/01
Title: FARADAY FAST TRACK PROPOSAL: COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF MICROWAVE FOOD PROCESSING
Principal Investigator: Parrott, Professor AK
Other Investigators:
Lacey, Professor A Cross, Professor M Dincov, Dr D
Pericleous, Professor KA Budd, Professor C
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
Unilever
Department: Sch of Computing and Maths Sci
Organisation: University of Greenwich
Scheme: Faraday (PreFEC)
Starts: 01 June 2002 Ends: 31 May 2004 Value (£): 103,669
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Continuum Mechanics Non-linear Systems Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Food and Drink
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The first phase of the project will study moisture movement and temperature histories in a heated biomaterial and will include comparison with experimental results. This will involve extending the software to allow for mode stirring and sub-gridding. It will also involve moving from the Phoenics CFD software to the Physica software developed and maintained at Greenwich. The results will be compared with experimental work at Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association and the mathematical model of moisture and temperature in microwaving, derived at the Bath Study Group in 1997; this model will be extended to a more general setting. The aim of this first phase is to demonstrate that computer modelling of the fully coupled problem provides the correct moisture movement trends for porous biomaterials and predicts their effect on the heating process.The second phase of the project will use the capabilities of the CFD software packages to study the detailed heating mechanisms involved in processing foods from a frozen state. The electromagnetic solver will be developed to model the effect of active packaging (susceptors and shields) as a part of this phase of the project. Detailed material properties and geometries for relevant (non-commercial) products will be set up in collaboration with Unilever. Unilever will also have a key role in evaluating computational results.
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