Mass and Heat Transfer Modeling of Bio-Substrates during Packaging.

Perishable bio-substrate behavior can be modeledduring packaged storage. Local mass and heattransferhave been coupled to respiration rate and microbial growth.Validating measurements have also been performed, and amulti-objective optimization was employed to tune themodel. The model is able to simulate gas compositionhistory and local bacteria spoilage in storage modes commonlyadopted by the food industry, depending on productfeatures and temperature. Exploitation of this mathematicaltool would allow for informed technical and managementdecisions.