Hypobaric Storage in Food Industry: Advances in Application and Theory

Hypobaric Storage in Food Industry: Advances in Application and Theory presents recent examples of hypobaric storage implementation. The book covers examples including hypobaric warehouses in the United States and China; the results from extensive Chinese publications, some addressing military use; improved design of an intermodal container to reduce cost, weight, and power consumption; and a proposal to fabricate a  container in China for shipping mangoes and other difficult-to-export plant commodities.

In1979 the Food Technology Industrial Achievement Award was given by the Institute of Food Technologists to the Grumman Corporation and the Armour & Company-Research Center for their creation of a hypobaric transportation and storage system that extended the storage life of fresh meats and plant commodities six times greater than average. Since then, cost, experimental errors by academics, and other concerns have prevented hypobaric storage from achieving more widespread adoption. However, recent advances — particularly since 2004 — have brought hypobaric storage back into active research and development.

With specific focus on issues such as condensation; insect, fungi, and bacterial contamination; and materials and methods, this work lays out hypobaric technology for readers including students of postharvest physiology, agricultural engineers, and producers and exporters of food products.

Presents recent examples of implementation of hypobaric storage including construction of hypobaric warehouses in United States and ChinaFeatures an improved design of intermodal container to reduce cost, weight, and power consumptionProposes fabricating hypobaric containers in China for exporting mangoes and other plant commodities that presently can only be transported at much greater expense by air

1. History of Hypobaric Storage
2. Experimental Errors in Hypobaric Storage Research
3. Gas and Vapor Mass Transfer at a Low Pressure
4. Heat Transfer at a Low Pressure
5. Materials and Methods
6. Humidity Control
7. Water Condensation in Hypobaric Chambers
8. Low-Oxygen Injury
9. Pervaporation
10. Capillary Condensation in Non-Waxed Boxes
11. Insect Quarantine
12. Fungi and Bacteria
13. Cost Effective LP Intermodal Container
14. Storage Boxes
15. Conclusions