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Radio Frequency: As Food Processing Technology

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RADIO FREQUENCY

As Food Processing Technology

PRESENTED BY
SUJEET PRAKASH YADAV
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ADVANTAGES OF
04 INTRODUCTION 08 USING RF IN FOOD
PROCESSING

RADIO FREQUENCY DISADVANTAGES


05 RF HEATING 09 OF USING RF IN
MECHANISM FOOD
PROCESSING
DIFFERENCE
06 VETWEEN 10
FUTURE ASPECTS
OF RF HEATING
CONVENTIONAL
HEATING AND RF
CONCLUSION
APPLICATION OF RF 11
07 IN FOOD
PROCESSING
03
INTODUCTION
Radio frequency (RF) heating is an advanced and emerging
technology for food processing.

In the modern industries, the demand for safe and hygienic, tastier,
no fat food, and preservative free food has increased up RF
application.

The food processors are making these efforts to deal with consumer
demand with high quality food and with raising economic standards.
04
RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING
MECHANISM
05
RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING
MECHANISM
04 RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING
MECHANISM (CONT.)
The electromagnetic energy transfers directly into the product. Therefore
it induces a volumetric heating due to frictional interaction between
the molecules.

In RF heating the product is placed between two capacitor plates. It


plays the role of dielectric where a high frequency alternating electric
field is applied.

Such field will force polar molecules (water) to constantly realign


themselves with the electric field.
This molecular is very fast due to the high frequency of the field. It will
cause generation of heat within the food by energy dissipation caused by
molecular friction.
04
RF VS CONVENTION HEATING

Convectional heating (ie. convection, conduction and radiation) has a


heat source outside. Heat is transferring to the surface of the material
and then conducting the heat to the middle of the material. Radio
frequency is different as it heats at molecular level. It heats from
within the product and heats the middle as well as the surface.
04 APPLICATION RADIO
FREQUENCY HEATING
1.Thawing of food products

Rapid thawing of meat and seafood products enhancing the freshness


quality of the product.
More suitable for industrial heating of meat as RF has greater
penetration depth than microwave heating.
By radio frequency treatment, thawing meat blocks within a target
temperature range of -1c to +5c is feasible.
It has minimum drawbacks like than the common methods such as
immersion in tank or water spraying like water loss or over-thawing .
04 APPLICATION RADIO
FREQUENCY HEATING
1.Thawing of food products

Rapid thawing of meat and seafood products enhancing the freshness


quality of the product.
More suitable for industrial heating of meat as RF has greater
penetration depth than microwave heating.
By radio frequency treatment, thawing meat blocks within a target
temperature range of -1c to +5c is feasible.
It has minimum drawbacks like than the common methods such as
immersion in tank or water spraying like water loss or over-thawing .
2. Baking and Drying

It’s widely used in the food processing industry.


The addition of a relatively small RF unit to the end of a conventional
baking line results in a substantial increase in product yield, improves
the product quality.
More energy being dissipated in wet region rather than the drier
regions.

It gives better final products, for example-


1. drying of food ingredients like herbs, spices, vegetables
2. potato products like french fries.
3. numerous pasta products
4. moisture removal or moisture levelling in final products.
2. Baking and Drying
04 3. Pasteurization/ Sterilization

There is demand for more in-package pasteurization today. As a non-


contact volumetric heating technique, RF is an ideal process for this
application.
04 RFID TAGS
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags have been used for some
time now.
They work much like a barcode, uniquely identifying a large number of
products
The RFID component on tags have two parts: a microchip that stores
and processes information, and an antenna to receive and transmit a
signal.
RFID has the potential to increase the efficiency of the operations,
improve asset visibility and traceability, decrease reliance on manual
process reduce operation cost and provide useful data for business
analytics.
04
ADVANTAGE OF RF HEATING
Radio frequency heating has many advantages over the conventional
heating and drying. Some of them are-

Faster heating and drying times


More uniform heating and drying.
Self limiting during drying.
Moisture leveling and profiling.
Selective heating.
Energy efficient.
Shorter process lines.
Contactless heating.
DISADVANTAGE OF RF HEATING
Equipment and operating cost

This is the main disadvantage of radio frequency heating. For


the equivalent power output, RF heating equipment is more
expensive than convention convection, radiation or steam
heating system. It is also more expensive than an equivalent
ohmic heating system.
04
FUTURE ASPECTS OF RADIO
FREQUENCY HEATING
In the future, consumer microwaves may also be replaced by
RF units that are much more efficient at cooking or warming
foods.

The research results with RF-Heating over the past few


decades have clearly shown that in the near future, RF
heating will be a very attractive processing technology to
provide safe and high quality of food products because of
its ability to penetrate deeply with rapid uniform heating
without affecting color and nutrition of food.
04
FUTURE ASPECTS OF RADIO
FREQUENCY HEATING (CONT.)

Nanotechnology techniques re already used in the


manufacture of RFID tags. The improvement in these
techniques in the coming years will result in smaller cheaper
RFID system. This will make them ever more common and
they will eventually replace barcodes.
04
CONCLUSION
The industrial application of radio frequency heating is still
limited towards meat, disinfection of agricultural commodities
and post baking, where there is substantial potential source
available in utilization of RF heating.

RF power provides a greater challenge to engineers to


develop large scale production unit for industrial application.

RF heating system can take the modern market on food


processing without any reason of concern.

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