Experimentation of Melting Kinetics Control in a Convective Food Thawing Process

摘要

The control of the melting front velocity in some foodstuff has been experimented and is reported in this brief. The single control variable is the external temperature. The position of the melting front is not measured. Advanced control methods as trajectory planning, nonlinear tracking, or feedback linearization are shown to be effective tools in this pioneering control problem.