Modeling food freezing processes, even at atmospheric pressure, is a difficult task (
Delgado and Sun, 2001;
Pham, 2006). Food products usually have complex shape, size and composition. Initial freezing temperatures are variable and may be lower than 0
°C, depending on the sample composition. Water is not totally available for freezing and it solidifies within a range of freezing temperatures rather than at a freezing point, due to the freeze concentration of solutes (
Franke, 2000). Moreover, in selecting thermal properties, identification of values for foods is difficult because these change as the freezing process progresses, as does the heat transfer coefficient, which has a significant influence ...