Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2017/v10i4/110884
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-5
Original Article
Kanji Abe1*, Ryo Ogata1 , Kei Eguchi1 , Krit Smerpitak2 and Sawai Pongswatd2
1Department of Information Electronics, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 2Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand; [email protected]; [email protected]
*Author for the correspondence:
Kanji Abe
Department of Information Electronics, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan; [email protected]
In this paper, a novel non-thermal food processing system utilizing an underwater shockwave is proposed to process food at high speed. In the non-thermal food processing, target foods are crushed by an underwater shockwave generated by a high voltage. Unlike conventional non-thermal food processing systems, the proposed system has a high voltage multiplier which can generate the underwater shockwave at high speed. Therefore, the proposed system can achieve a high production capacity. The validity of the proposed high voltage multiplier is confirmed by the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) simulation. Furthermore, the feasibility of the proposed system is verified by demonstrating the proposed system by the experiments. In the experiments, an apple is softened by discharging 3.5kV stepped-up voltage.
Keywords: High Speed Operations, High Voltage Multipliers, Non-Thermal Food Processing, Step-Up Voltage Multipliers, Underwater Shockwaves.
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