TY - JOUR
TI - Fractal calculus for refrigerated transportation of perishable foods: Energy consumption and energy saving
AU - Liu Enhai
AU - Zhang Wenyun
AU - Zheng Huifan
AU - Qian Yingzhi
AU - Li Wei
AU - Zhou Nianyong
AU - Liu Li
AU - Feng Hao
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2021
VL - 25
IS - 2
SP - 1255
EP - 1260
PT - Article
AB - 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.