NDLI: Artificial Fruit: Postharvest Online Monitoring of Agricultural Food by Measuring Humidity and Temperature

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Author	Hübert, T. Lang, C.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	An online monitoring of environmental and inherent product parameters is required during transportation and storage of fruit and vegetables to avoid quality degradation and spoilage. The control of transpiration losses is suggested as an indicator for fruit freshness by humidity measurements. For that purpose, an electronic sensor is surrounded by a wet porous fiber material which is in contact with the outer atmosphere. Transpiration reduces the water content of the porous material and thus also the internal water activity. The sensor system, known as “artificial fruit,” measures the relative humidity and temperature inside the wet material. Humidity and temperature data are collected and transmitted on demand by a miniaturized radio communication unit. The decrease in the measured relative humidity has been calibrated against the mass loss of tomatoes under different external influencing parameters such as temperature, humidity, and air flow. Current battery life allows the sensor system, embedded in a fruit crate, to transmit data on transpiration losses via radio transmission for up to two weeks.
Starting Page	1606
Ending Page	1615
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0195928X
Journal	International Journal of Thermophysics
Volume Number	33
Issue Number	8-9
e-ISSN	15729567
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-10-16
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Agricultural food Relative humidity Transpiration losses Water activity Condensed Matter Physics Mechanics Physical Chemistry Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Condensed Matter Physics

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