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Computational Applications for the Evaluation and Simulation of the Thermal Treatment of Canned Foods

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William Miranda-Zamora, Amirpasha Tirado-Kulieva and David Ricse

Reviewed: 15 July 2021 Published: 13 July 2022

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99470

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Abstract

Throughout this chapter we will explore the computational applications that can help us in the evaluation, calculation and simulation of the thermal treatment of canned foods. Although some basic principles of microbial death kinetics will be recalled, the course is basically focused on the exploration and use of computational applications to evaluate and simulate the heat treatment of low-acid foods, considering C. botulinum as the reference microorganism. I hope that this book chapter will be useful for you and that you will be able to explore all the contents that are planned to be developed: General and technical aspects of the heat treatment of canned foods, heat penetration studies of canned foods, heat treatment evaluation General method, calculation and prediction of heat treatment by Ball’s Method, heat treatment modeling and simulation, and optimization of heat treatment.

Keywords

  • canned food
  • heat penetration study
  • general method
  • Ball’s Formula Method
  • simulation
  • F-value

1. Introduction

Heat treatment is a process of utmost importance to ensure food safety. If the product, a canned food, for example, does not receive an adequate heat treatment, it might cause intoxication and even death of the consumer [1]. The treatment must be designed correctly to guarantee efficient results, reducing the negative impact on the food, caused by the use of high temperatures [2]. For this, in order to optimize the process, it is necessary to know the thermal properties of the food, the kinetics of the changes in its quality, in addition to the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the microbial load and/or enzymes [3].

To evaluate and simulate a thermal treatment, there are computational tools that use techniques that have been designed to evaluate the time of a process, or its F-value and/or simulate a thermal process.

In order to evaluate a thermal process there are two groups of methods, the Formula Methods and the General Methods. The Figure 1 shows that there are several Formula methods to evaluate a heat treatment. The classic Formula Methods are those of Charles Olin Ball and Charles Raymond Stumbo, which are called Ball’s Formula Method [4, 5, 6], and Stumbo’s Formula Method [7, 8, 9, 10], respectively. There are other Formula Methods such as the one proposed by Kan-Ichi Hayakawa and the Formula Method developed by Quang Tuan Pham. These Formula Methods are called Hayakawa’s Formula Method [11, 12, 13], and Pham’s Formula Method [9, 13, 14, 15].

Figure 1.

Various formula methods to evaluate a thermal process of packaged foods.

General methods can also be used to evaluate a packaged food. There are three General Methods (Figure 2). The Original General Method (OGM) was plated by Willard Dell Bigelow and his team in 1920 [15, 16]. The Improved General Method (IGM) was proposed by Charles Olin Ball after 1923 [15, 17, 18, 19, 20].

Figure 2.

Various general methods to evaluate a thermal process of packaged foods. TDT = thermal death time, L = lethal rate, and LF = LF-value.

The Combined General Method (CGM) was proposed by William R. Miranda-Zamora, and Arthur A. Teixeira in 2012, as its name says it is a combination of the two previous General Methods [2, 15].

Both General Methods and Formula Methods can be solved using software or computer applications [21, 22, 23].

The simulation of the heat treatment of packaged foods can be done using the finite difference method or using the finite element method [24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29].

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2. General and technical aspects of the heat treatment of canned foods

Knowing the acidity of the food is crucial to determine the severity of the heat treatment. If the food has a pH < 4.6, as in the case of apple nectar, canned mango, pickles, citrus fruit juices, jam, sauerkraut, some sauces, etc.; in this case, the acidic medium will inhibit the proliferation of sporulated bacteria such as C. botulinum and, therefore, severe heat treatment (<100°C) will not be required. In contrast, if the food has low acidity (pH > 4.6), such as canned asparagus, milk, among other meat products, seafood and canned vegetables, it is essential to use high temperatures >100°C [8, 14], which guarantee the sterilization of the food, increasing its shelf life. There are particular cases such as, for example, although milk has an almost neutral pH, being susceptible to microbiological spoilage, a mild pasteurization is applied to preserve its nutritional characteristics, in addition to the fact that milk is a product with a short shelf life; however, in many cases a high temperature-short time (HTST) pasteurization is applied and, being for a few seconds, the impact on the quality of the product is considerably avoided [2, 15].

Thermal treatment is based on two aspects: the biological (or microbiological) and the physical. The biological aspect refers to the microorganism, as the reference microorganism or target microorganism. The important thing is the number of decimal log reductions, n, [30, 31, 32, 33], which is defined as:

n=logN0NE1

where N0 = the number of spores of the target microorganism, and N = the number of spores of the target microorganism that remains after heat treatment.

For example, if we start with a load of 1000 spores of C. sporogenes, and after heat treatment it is reduced to 1 spore. Therefore, the number of decimal log reductions will be 3 according to Eq. (1). In order to destroy the spores of C. botulinum, 12 decimal log reductions are needed [2, 15, 34, 35, 36]. The F0 value is the standard used worldwide to quantify the F-value at a reference temperature. The reference temperature used for commercial sterilization is 121.1°C on the Celsius scale, or 250°F on the Fahrenheit scale. The F0 value is the minutes that are necessary to evaluate the lethal effect of heat at the reference temperature of 121.1°C = 250°F [2, 15, 16, 21].

Other important values to determine are the D value and the z value, which are determined in the laboratory, using different methods. The D-value and z-value are derived from the thermal death or destruction curves and the thermal resistance curve, respectively [2]. The D-value is defined as the time required to destroy 90% of the initial microbial load, or go through a logarithmic cycle. The smaller the D value the faster the destruction rate [15]. The z-value is defined as the variation in degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit required to reduce 90% of the D-value, or for the D-value to go through a logarithmic cycle [2, 15, 16].

One of the methods to determine the z-value and the decimal reduction time or D-value is the thermoresistometer [37, 38, 39]. The D-value and z-value can also be determined to the nutrients by means of a thermoresistometer [40, 41, 42]. The D value or decimal reduction time, is related to the number decimal log reductions through Eq. (2). Furthermore, the D-value and the z-value are characteristic of each spore or vegetative cell of the microorganism, or nutrient [43, 44, 45].

FTz=nlogN0N=nDE2

where FTz = F-value that depends on the temperature and the z-value of the microorganism. Generally, for low acid canned preserves a D value of 0.21 minutes and 12 decimal log reductions are taken, which gives a value of 2.52 minutes using Eq. (2). For handling in a food safety and process plant, it takes about FTz = 3 minutes [2, 15]. The physical aspect has to do with recording the temperature history using temperature sensors [46, 47, 48, 49, 50].

Cans and/or packaging have an important role in heat transfer efficiency and, therefore, they should be properly selected, considering their physical, mechanical, thermal and even electrical and optical characteristics. According to Berk [31], the most commonly used material is tinplate, especially because of its low cost. Aluminum is also widely used in the manufacture of cans for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and although it is more ductile and lighter than tinplate, it has a higher cost [18]. Glass is also used for the packaging of beverages and canned food, being characterized by its impermeability, rigidity, thermal resistance and transparency, obtaining attractive containers; however, they are very fragile and have a high weight [29]. Considering its thermal properties at 20°C, it has a thermal conductivity (k) of 0.75 W m−1 K−1, a specific heat (Cp) of 800 J kg−1 K and a thermal diffusivity (α) of 0.35 x 106 m2 s−1, with a great difference compared to aluminum, whose k, Cp and α values are 230 W m−1 K−1, 900 J kg−1 K and 95 x 106 m2 s−1, respectively. It is important to mention that these values depend on other characteristics, such as thickness, which, the higher the thickness, the better the thermal resistance, with a lower heat transfer rate [2, 16]. To avoid environmental impact, thinner materials are used, as in the case of tinplate, but like other metallic materials, they still maintain optimum qualities [34].

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3. Heat penetration studies of canned foods

Heat penetration testing or studies is done by placing containers with temperature sensors in the coldest zone of the autoclave or retort. From the heat penetration tests it is interesting to determine the heat penetration factors f and j [51, 52].

The EVATMi-ZA v 1.0 software includes the determination of the heat penetration parameters f and j [1, 2] (heating, fh and jh [53, 54, 55] or cooling, fc and jc). The heat penetration parameters for heating include the determination of the delay factor j_CUT, based on the CUT value “come-up time” [56]. The come-up time is the time it takes for the autoclave or retort to reach process temperature. The 0.58 CUT is the new origin when using the Charles Olin Ball model or Ball’s Formula Method [57, 58, 59, 60]. Figure 3 shows the behavior of steam within a canned food. The trend of temperature versus retort temperature or autoclave temperature is linear on semi logarithmic paper [61, 62, 63, 64].

Figure 3.

Simple heating heat penetration curve.

From Figure 3 we deduce:

1fh=logjh/jh_CUT0.58CUTE3

Therefore, fh as a function of CUT, j and j_CUT is:

fh=0.58CUTlogjh/jh_CUTE4

The EVATMi-ZA v 1.0 software includes the determination of the broken curve penetration parameters (fh, fh2, xbh, xbh_CUT, jh, jh_CUT). There are many canned foods that exhibit a broken curve [55, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70].

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4. Heat treatment evaluation general method

Willard Dell Bigelow in 1920 presented a method for calculating the F-value of packaged foods, which was essentially graphical, it was determined by weighing (using scissors and analytical balance), counting squares (using graph paper) or planimetry (using planimeter) [71, 72, 73, 74]. Initially, they constructed a graph in Cartesian coordinates, the curve of rise and fall of the temperature (heat penetration) at the slowest heating point (critical point) of the product during sterilization [75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80]. The thermal resistance of the bacteria was represented by the thermal destruction time curve (TDT-curve) obtained by plotting the time required to destroy a high percentage of spores from a population versus the degree temperature [81, 82, 83]. From the TDT-curve, the values of “thermal death or destruction time” (TDT) were calculated for each time of the heat penetration curve. This is known as the Original General Method (OGM).

To use the Original General Method, the Improved General Method and the Combined General Method it is necessary to calculate 1/TDT (min−1), L (lethal rate) and LF (min) respectively. For which the following expressions will be used respectively [5, 15]:

1TDT=10TTrefzFTrefzRequiredE5
L=10TTrefzE6
LF=FTrefzRequired×10TTrefzE7

Figure 4 shows how to solve using General Methods using the counting of squares technique in a practical way. Also, it can be solved using numerical techniques such as Simpson’s rule, the rectangular rule, or the trapezoidal rule. The EVATMi-ZA v 1.0 software can solve the General methods using numerical techniques (rectangular, trapezoidal and/or Simpson) [15].

Figure 4.

General methods: Original general method (OGM), improved general method (IGM), and combined general method (CGM) using in a practical way the counting of squares on graph paper.

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5. Calculation and prediction of heat treatment by Ball’s method

Charles Olin Ball developed and published his Formula Method in 1923 [84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90]. Olin Ball had already participated in research with Willard Dell Bigelow in 1920 [86]. The success of the Ball’s Formula Method is that it appears in a Bulletin that goes directly to the canning industry [91]. Ball uses a hyperbola to represent the curvilinear part at the beginning of cooling. Ball does not use a hyperbolic function [91, 92, 93]. Ball’s Formula Method is the favorite of the food industry. Ball’s Formula Method is ninety-eight years old, it has crossed the threshold of time, although its handling is not well understood [91, 93]. Ball’s Formula Method uses the heat penetration factors of heating. The Formula Method has two variants, simple curve and broken heating curve [94, 95, 96]. Formula Methods, such as Ball’s Formula Method allow you to predict the F-value of the process, or calculate the process time. There are two cases to solve, or the time, or the F value. The Formula Methods are preferred to simulate or predict the process time, knowing the heat penetration parameters [97, 98]. The EVATMi-ZA v 1.0 software can solve time or F-value cases using Ball’s Formula Method [99, 100].

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6. Heat treatment modeling and simulation

Although heat treatments are of utmost importance due to their role in food preservation and also because they confer specific characteristics to food [101], the heat used during the process causes the degradation of nutrients, significantly affecting their quality; therefore, it is essential to minimize such damage, but without affecting the desired sterility of the products. For this purpose, it is necessary to develop a heat treatment that involves precise operating conditions in terms of temperature and time, achieving a minimal but efficient process [102], which guarantees optimum food quality [103]. Although currently it is still a challenge, thanks to technological advances, there are mathematical modeling and computer simulation techniques [104] that allow predicting the quality of food during processing and storage, in addition to providing the opportunity to optimize the process [105]. To achieve an ideal design, it is essential to have knowledge of the transport phenomena [106], such as mass, heat (by conduction, convection and radiation) and momentum, involved in the process [107], principles such as, for example, for solid foods, heat and moisture transfer, which are generally modeled by Fourier’s and Fick’s law, respectively [108] and for fluids, the continuity and Navier–Stokes Equations [109]. Likewise, the other physical mechanisms involved in the respective thermal process must be understood in order to achieve better results.

As it is known, preventing the deterioration of the organoleptic and nutritional characteristics of food [110], improves food safety, an important objective in the industry [108] and which is difficult to fulfill, due to the complex and dynamic nature of food [111] and thermal processing, requiring knowledge not only in engineering, but also in chemistry and microbiology [103]; therefore, as mentioned, numerical solutions are required [101] that, unlike traditional analytics, allow a fast and intelligent management of the large database obtained [112], helping to estimate the behavior of the food during thermal processing. It is necessary to mention that the pioneering study on the subject was by Datta & Teixeira [113], who performed a numerical modeling of the natural convection heating process of a liquid food packaged in cylindrical cans, successfully predicting the thermal (TP) and velocity (VP) profiles [114, 115].

By predicting and optimizing the process, modeling also helps to reduce time and costs, due to the reduction of experiments [116], which are very high under normal conditions [117], having as a disadvantage the obtaining of results in long periods [118]. Basically, one could, for example, after determining the effect of pasteurization temperature on the microbial load in different areas of a food, generate a mathematical model to help predict what the microbial spoilage would be if the processing temperature increases, without neglecting its influence on food quality. Likewise, a correct modeling enhanced with simulation, it would be possible to experiment with different changes in the variables, besides acquiring other advantages such as having control, and a broad and concise vision of the process [119].

For the execution of the computational techniques, first of all, the transfer phenomena that govern the thermal process, mainly heat, are represented by partial differential equations (PDE) [120] to be subsequently converted into a discrete model [107], which will be solved with some numerical method, such as finite differences, finite element and finite volume [108] or also called computational fluid dynamics (CFD) which is the most used [121], since it allows effectively designing a process or optimizing an existing one [122], through the development of three-dimensional models of the system and a numerical solution that describes it with high accuracy and realism. Similarly, it should be noted that, thanks to artificial intelligence, there are other modeling and optimization techniques, such as artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms, which are based on human intelligence and evolution, respectively [103].

CFD has been used since the 1950s, and has developed rapidly up to the present [117], since it is characterized by providing, through numerical algorithms, an easy resolution of the multiple physical phenomena involved in the process [120], which, in addition to heat, mass and momentum transfer (or fluid mechanics), also includes phase changes and chemical reactions [123]. Regarding thermal processing of canned foods, in which thermal processing is more difficult, because the temperature change is affected by the complex characteristics of the product [124], but also, the shape [125], type, size and orientation of the package [126]. CFD has been widely employed to solve challenges such as TP and VP monitoring [109], determination of the slowest heating zone (SHZ), slowest cooling zone (SCZ) [118] and even the kinetics of microbial inactivation and nutrient degradation. Specifically, in addition to sterilization [119] and pasteurization [127], it has covered a wide range of thermal treatments such as cooking [101] baking, drying [103] and cooling [128], and there is even information on its use in non-thermal processes such as microwave heating, ohmic heating, among others, which confirms its feasibility, versatility and suitability for food processing.

Since the since the development of CFD, there have been several commercial software, having in the early 1970s, a great boom and continuous improvement until today [127], emphasizing greater ease of use [129]. Of the extensive list of computer codes, some are FIDAP [116], CFX, FLUENT, PHOENICS [10], ANSYS, ANDINA-F, CFD++ [120], FLOW-3D, STAR-CD, CFD-ACE+ [128] and MSC Marc [105], of which most are still operational or have had some changes; for example, FLUENT and CFX are currently owned by ANSYS inc [129, 130], a leading developer of advanced engineering software. ANSYS offers several types of analysis and concerning heat treatments, it includes the three forms of heat transfer, phase change, internal heat source, contact thermal resistance, among other evaluations [131]. It is based on the creation of a geometry, which is divided into a finite number of units to form a computational geometry, then the governing PDEs are discretized, solved with numerical methods [122] and finally, the results are interpreted by the analyst. CFD simulation with ANSYS, has been applied to different packaged products such as in the pasteurization of beer [102] and water [115], in solid–liquid mixtures such as peas in water [132] and carrot-orange soup [133], food models such as waxy corn starch [126] and sucrose solution [134], in potato refrigeration [135], and even in the improvement of equipment processing parameters, such as in those of an industrial meat dryer [136] and a hydrofluidization freezing chamber [137]. There are also studies on the use of other software in solving the equations of energy, mass and moment, to determine the thermal behavior. A research deals with the effect of using 3.5% cornstarch packaging with an immobile can and rotating continuously at 146 rpm, using FIDAP 7.6 as software [138]. Furthermore, the same authors carried out a similar experiment, but evaluating the effect of intermittent axial agitation (0–146 rpm), and two retort temperatures (111 and 131°C) [139]. In another study, LabVIEW 8.5 was used to compare freezing results of guava pulp packed in stacked boxes, buckets, and unstacked drums, 34, 20, and 200 L, respectively [140].

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7. Optimization of heat treatment

Until now, process optimization is essential to determine the best parameters that help to obtain the ideal results, in less time and with a significant reduction in costs. Considering the food industry, this task is much more difficult since there are multiple variables that intervene in the quality of the product [141] or process. Likewise, if it focuses mainly on the thermal processing of packaged foods and its importance in food safety, its optimization and especially its control are a challenge [142], due to the excessive use of high temperatures and for prolonged periods of time, and for Therefore, the improvement of the treatment conditions is essential to maintain the maximum characteristics of the food [143] and, consequently, a better acceptance by the consumer.

Regarding modeling and simulation, optimization, being related, for its application requires computational modeling and prediction techniques and that, due to advances in hardware, software and engineering related to processing thermal, it is becoming easier and faster to find the best solution [144]. In addition, one must have knowledge of heat transfer, quality change and microbial reduction, the three axes on which heat treatment is based.

Some techniques are the parametrization of the control vector, the principle of the continuous minimum, the super-simple optimization, the dynamic optimization, the neural network [145], the genetic algorithms, the simulated annealing of multiple initiation, among others. It should be noted that local optimization techniques have been used for thermal processing, which are the oldest and are hardly used, and global optimization techniques that are becoming increasingly popular [146]. This is due to the fact that, with the traditional ones, only the influence of a factor (independent variable) on a response (dependent variable) could be evaluated, therefore, as a general result of the processing was not obtained, the effect that the other variables had. This is problematic considering the complexity of the food, its dynamics [147] and also the characteristics of the container [145], including all the changes caused during heat treatment. For this, in contrast, global techniques [143], such as TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution), focus on multiobjective optimization. In an investigation, it was applied in pressure pasteurization of green soybean tofu, managing to optimize the process with a thermal denaturation of 85°C and 10 min, and a high pressure homogenization of 80 MPa, for 4 cycles, achieving an increase in hardness, capacity of retention of water, proteins, fat and yield, in 155.7, 34.48, 30.31, 29.11 and 21.42%, respectively [148].

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8. Conclusions

In this chapter we explore general and technical aspects of the heat treatment of canned foods, which become the basis or foundation. Heat penetration studies are the requirement for evaluation of heat treatment either by the General Method or by the Ball’s Formula Method. Finally, in the final part, we review the modeling and simulation of the heat treatment, in order to achieve the optimization of the heat treatment. Thanks to the computational advances, it has been possible to improve the optimization techniques and even more the global ones, which are ideal to face the complexity of the thermal processing of packaged foods; however, there are still certain limitations such as the relative delay in executing the experimental design, due to the number of dependent and independent variables, with their respective levels (values) and replicas (repetitions).

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