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Effect of vibration on packaged fresh fruit and vegetable quality during long distance refrigerated transportation.

Author(s) : HINSCH R. T., THOMPSON J. F.

Summary

In long distance tests of refrigerated trailers with steel-spring suspensions and loaded with tomatoes, table grapes and strawberries, high power spectral density levels for acceleration were found at 3 to 4 hertz, with other lower peaks at 9, 16-18, and 25 hertz, and levels were also lower at most other frequencies. A package that has a wide transmissibility band width at resonance is more likely to result in damaged product than a package with a narrow band width, particularly if the narrow band is where the input vibration level from the transit system is low.

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  • Original title: Effect of vibration on packaged fresh fruit and vegetable quality during long distance refrigerated transportation.
  • Record ID : 1996-0230
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Refrigeration and the Quality of Fresh Vegetables.
  • Publication date: 1994/09/07
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