MODELLING MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES USING MEMBRANE SYSTEMS

Gabi Escuela, Thomas Hinze, Peter Dittrich, Stefan Schuster, Mario Moreno-Álvarez

2010

Abstract

As living materials, post-harvested fruits and vegetables continue their metabolic activity, exhibiting progressive biochemical changes. Optimisation of environmental conditions during storage of these fresh commodities is required in order to increase their shelf life. In this work we use P systems to abstract molecular interactions that occur between plant organ, film and surrounding atmosphere factors involved in fresh fruit and vegetable package designs. The proposed model constitutes a general framework to simulate the dynamical behaviour of these systems, specially due to gas exchanges and temperature fluctuations. Moreover, the model can be extended introducing other variables and processes that affect quality of such produces. This can be considered, to the best of our knowledge, the first contribution of Membrane Computing in Food Engineering.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Escuela G., Hinze T., Dittrich P., Schuster S. and Moreno-Álvarez M. (2010). MODELLING MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES USING MEMBRANE SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-018-4, pages 306-311. DOI: 10.5220/0002749103060311

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals10,
author={Gabi Escuela and Thomas Hinze and Peter Dittrich and Stefan Schuster and Mario Moreno-Álvarez},
title={MODELLING MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES USING MEMBRANE SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={306-311},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002749103060311},
isbn={978-989-674-018-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - MODELLING MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES USING MEMBRANE SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-674-018-4
AU - Escuela G.
AU - Hinze T.
AU - Dittrich P.
AU - Schuster S.
AU - Moreno-Álvarez M.
PY - 2010
SP - 306
EP - 311
DO - 10.5220/0002749103060311