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Avaliação de temperaturas em câmaras frigoríficas de transporte urbano de alimentos resfriados e congelados

2010; Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0101-20612010000100024

1678-457X

Vítor de Freitas Pereira, Eduardo C. B. Dória, Bento da Costa Carvalho Júnior, Lincoln de Camargo Neves Filho, Vivaldo Silveira,

Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

The objective of this work was to monitor the operational conditions of the transport of chilled and frozen foods during delivery within cities and to evaluate the impact of the door openings on the alteration of the internal temperature of the refrigerated environment. Several temperature and pressure sensors were used in a refrigerated container with two compartments and they were installed in the refrigeration system unit and on the internal and external surfaces of the container. After the monitoring tests, it was verified that door openings during deliveries resulted in a disturbance that raised the internal temperature of the refrigerated container above values recommended for adequate conservation of the products transported. Moreover, increasing the number of door openings promoted a cumulative effect on the internal temperature, mainly in the chilled food compartment of the container. It was concluded that the refrigeration system unit presented serious limitations with regard to the maintenance of the container's internal temperature during the actual distribution routine, since it does not possess enough instantaneous capacity to restore the temperature set-point between deliveries.