CFD Modelling of the Thermal Performance of Fruit Packaging Boxes—Influence of Vent-Holes Design

The shelf life of perishable products depends mainly on the conservation air temperature. Packaging boxes are usually used to accommodate food during cold storage and transport and/or display. design vent-holes packaging box must promote airflow remove field heat produce after harvest at a short time. This study describes influence its performance storage. cooling different is evaluated experimentally numerically using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Three new configurations with same size but (size, shape position) reference modelled. transient three-dimensional CFD model predicts pattern temperature distribution within boxes. best thermal achieved fruit 1.5 K 5 lower than other end 8 h cooling. These predictions allow development designs that shelf-life extension products.