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Emerging Technologies for Food Processing, 2nd Edition
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Emerging Technologies for Food Processing, 2nd Edition

by Da-Wen Sun
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
41h 38m
English
Academic Press
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22.2. Fundamentals of Ohmic Heating

22.2.1. Basic Principles

The basic principle of ohmic heating, or the Joule effect, is the dissipation of electrical energy in the form of heat using an electrical conductor. This energy generation is proportional to the square power of the local electric field strength and the electrical conductivity. The power generated, ΔP, in a homogeneous element conductor of given length Δz in the z direction and area ΔA, perpendicular to the electrical field E, with constant physical properties, is given by

ΔP=ΔU2ΔΩ=σE2ΔAΔz=σE2ΔV

image (22.1)

where the potential difference in direction z is ΔU = EΔz and the ohmic resistance is defined ...
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