Publications by authors named "Ricardo Badia-Melis"
Cold chain disruption and refrigeration failures are common issues in the logistics of perishable food products. In these cases, the use of pallet covers should be very useful, delaying the increase of product temperatures inside the pallets until cooling conditions are restored. However, there are no studies about the performance of pallet covers in these types of situations, which could persist for hours.
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- Millions of temperature-sensitive goods require precise temperature and humidity control during production and transport, raising quality control concerns among various stakeholders.
- A study utilized a combination of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) in three different commercial cold storage chambers, each with unique settings and products.
- The data collected enabled 3D temperature mapping and calculated factors like energy consumption, water loss from products, and condensation detection, improving overall cold chain monitoring and management.
Improvement in fresh fruit and vegetable logistics quality: berry logistics field studies.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
June 2014
Shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables is greatly influenced by environmental conditions. Increasing temperature usually results in accelerated loss of quality and shelf-life reduction, which is not physically visible until too late in the supply chain to adjust logistics to match shelf life. A blackberry study showed that temperatures inside pallets varied significantly and 57% of the berries arriving at the packinghouse did not have enough remaining shelf life for the longest supply routes.
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