Bühlmann, A. (2019). Digital twins probe into food cooling and biochemical quality changes for reducing losses in refrigerated supply chains. Resources, Conservation and Recycling,

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Convective cooling is essential in many supply chain unit operations for refrigerated transport 17 and cold storage of fresh products. Fruit must be kept at low temperatures to preserve quality 18 and to slow down biochemically-driven food degradation. Along the cold chain, 19 heterogeneities in temperatures are present among individual products, which influence the 20 resulting product quality, causing significant food losses. This study presents a thermo-fluid 21 dynamic model of a single mango fruit to better understand the convective cooling behavior 22 of fruits with more complex, non-spherical shapes and a heterogeneous composition. To 23 explain the biochemical and biological processes affecting the product's final quality, 24 experimental data from the literature are used to calibrate kinetic rate laws for the prediction 25