Review of development of phase change cold storage technology for food cold chain application

DOI

10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.170How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Phase change cold storage technology; Refrigerated vehicle; Characteristic of charging; Numerical simulations.

Abstract

This paper reviews the recent development of phase change cold storage technology for food cold chain application. According to the application field of cold chain, developments of phase change cold storage technology in cold storage and low temperature transport are introduced separately, such as hold-over plate refrigerated storage, hold-over plate refrigerated vehicle, cold storage type transport incubators. Numerical simulations using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS FLUENT to characterize the temperature distribution in cold storage plate and hold-over plate refrigerated vehicle in charging process is reported. The results indicate that the charging capacity increase with the heat transfer fluid flow rate increase when the inlet temperature remains constant. Application of phase change cold storage technology in field of refrigeration transportation equipment has huge development prospect.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiao-yan Li
AU  - Bing-qi Ma
AU  - Yue-ming Li
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Review of development of phase change cold storage technology for food cold chain application
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 927
EP  - 930
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.170
DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.170
ID  - Li2015/09
ER  -