Determinación Computacional del Coeficiente de Transferencia de Calor y Propiedades Termofísicas de Alimentos.

The development of a computer program for the determination of thermophysical properties and convective heat transfer coefficients in foods is presented. The software has been named CTCIA (Heat Transfer Coefficients in Food Engineering). To validate the models included in the software, experimental data of fresh and processed tilapia at different temperatures and process times. The experimental data were processed automatically by the software, thereby generating values for the thermophysical properties and the heat transfer coefficient. In is concluded that the method described in this study is useful for calculating the thermophysical properties and the convective heat transfer coefficient when there is no internal resistance to heat transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]