Fuzzy logic for accurate control of heating temperature and duration in canned food sterilisation

CC Chung, HH Chen, CH Ting - Engineering in agriculture …, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
abstract Autoclave thermal process is an important sterilisation procedure in the food
canning industry. The performance of sterilisation is determined by the heating temperature …

A fuzzy logic-controlled thermal process for simultaneous pasteurization and cooking of soft-boiled eggs

P Podržaj, M Jenko - Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2010 - Elsevier
A fuzzy logic-based design of control for a unique thermal process in the food industry is
presented. Products of the thermal process are pasteurized soft-boiled eggs. The function of …

Retrofitting of a vertical retort for on-line control of the sterilization process

MA Kumar, MN Ramesh, SN Rao - Journal of Food engineering, 2001 - Elsevier
A micro-controller-based retort control system for sterilization of foods was developed. The
feature of this developed control system is that actual container cold point temperature is …

On-line control strategy for compensating for arbitrary deviations in heating-medium temperature during batch thermal sterilization processes

SG Akterian - Journal of food engineering, 1999 - Elsevier
The proposed strategy based on sets of sensitivity functions and total differential permits on-
line control of batch thermal sterilization of convection-and conduction-heated canned foods …

Automatic control of batch thermal processing of canned foods

RJ Simpson, SF Almonacid, AA Teixeira - Robotics and Automation in the …, 2013 - Elsevier
This chapter describes theoretical, practical and efficient strategies for on-line correction of
thermal process deviations during retort sterilization of canned foods. It presents a review of …

A microprocessor control system for thermal sterilisation operations

BP Lappo, MJW Povey - Journal of food engineering, 1986 - Elsevier
A development facility, comprising a steam sterilising retort, a microprocessor development
system and associated instrumentation and control equipment, is described. Features of the …

Design and performance of conventional and fuzzy controls for a high temperature short time pasteurization system

MI Berto, V SILVEIRA, JUNIOR - Journal of Food Process …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Fuzzy control was applied in a high‐temperature short time (HTST) pasteurization system
and experimentally evaluated and compared with proportional‐integral‐derivative …

On-line retort control in thermal sterilization of canned foods

AA Teixeira, GS Tucker - Food control, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper presents a short review of recent developments toward achieving computer-
based intelligent on-line control systems for assuring safety, quality, and process efficiency …

Optimization of food thermal processing: sterilization stage and plant production scheduling

R Simpson, A Abakarov - Food Engineering Interfaces, 2011 - Springer
Two optimization problems that have arisen in thermal process calculation are considered in
this chapter. First, there is the problem of thermal process calculation where process time at …

Thermal characterization of poultry for the development of a comprehensive device to monitor safe and proper cooking

FCR Hernandez, JA Neal, US Aldea - Journal of Food Process …, 2013 - infona.pl
This work presents a new application of semiautomated technology to monitor temperatures
of a wide range of food products, which can be remotely controlled (via Internet) for various …