Stoßbelastung von Möhren beim maschinellen Verpacken

Abstract

Washed carrots are mechanically harvested, transported, graded and packed. During these handling processes they undergo intensive mechanical impact that can decrease quality and shelf life. In particular, packaging in foodtainers is one of the processes with very high mechanical impact. In order to quantify it, an impact detector was implanted directly into a single carrot to determine mechanical impact accelerations occurring during transport through the packaging machine. By analyzing the impact data, the frequency and magnitude could be measured, and critical aspects of each technical section identified. The impact data recorded can be used to reduce mechanical impacts during mechanical handling in the future.