Current global food supply chains are faced with an ever increasing variety of modern day
societal challenges. As a direct result of these challenges many of these supply chains are …

In their review of internet of things (IoT) applications in supply chain management, Ben-Daya
et al. identified the food supply chain (FSC) as one of the application areas with greatest …

Fruits and vegetables are highly nutritious agricultural produce with tremendous human
health benefits. They are also highly perishable and as such are easily susceptible to …

Food cold chain logistics (FCCL) is a systematic engineering process involving the use of a
low‐temperature environment to maintain the quality and safety of perishable food and …

Highlights•Packaging is a cost-effective, flexible way to improve fresh-produce cold
chains.•Complex trade-offs in package design ask for an integrated performance …

Optimizing the design of fresh produce packaging is vital for ensuring that future food cold
chains are more energy efficient and for improving produce quality by avoiding chilling …

The performance of an existing container for orange fruit and two new designs, stacked on a
pallet, has been evaluated for forced-convective precooling using computational fluid …

Optimisation of package design for citrus fruit is required to increase the throughput, by
reducing the precooling time, and to enhance fruit quality by providing fast and uniform …

A 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of airflow and heat transfer processes
within packed horticultural produce was developed. The model included explicit geometries …

Horticultural packaging is a critical component of the cold chain and influences both the
preservation of fresh produce quality as well as the efficiency of cold chain operations …