THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Enhai Liu

,

Wenyun Zhang

,

Huifan Zheng

,

Yingzhi Qian

,

Wei Li

,

Nianyong Zhou

,

Li Liu

,

Hao Feng

FRACTAL CALCULUS FOR REFRIGERATED TRANSPORTATION OF PERISHABLE FOODS: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND ENERGY SAVING

ABSTRACT
This paper studies the frozen pork transportation in short and long distances, the loss of cooling capacity and the energy consumption in the cold chain transportation are analyzed experimentally and numerically. It finds that the material for freezer insulation plays in important role in energy consumption and energy saving during refrigerated transportation, an optimal freezer can reduce temperature rise by 13.88% and the heat flow by 71.05% compared with the traditional ones. A fractal model is established to reveal the thermal property of the freezer.
KEYWORDS
perishable foods, refrigerated transportation, energy consumption, energy saving, fractal calculus, fractal derivative, biomimetic design, wool, polar bear hair, fractal dimension
PAPER SUBMITTED: 1970-01-01
PAPER REVISED: 2020-05-26
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2020-05-26
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2021-01-31
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI200401020L
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2021, VOLUME 25, ISSUE Issue 2, PAGES [1255 - 1260]
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Fractal calculus for refrigerated transportation of perishable foods: Energy consumption and energy saving

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