An Association Study of Energy Transformation in Banana Loaded by Force and its Damage Evolution

Abstract:

The research on the damage banana quality with loaded mechanical energy has significance to its storage, but there are few researches at present. This paper investigated 3 indexes of the energy and substance transformation in the damage banana by loading, including the change of the respiration rate CO₂, the maximum impact stress intensity of fruit re-enduring and the maximum mechanical energy etc. during the storage. The results showed that there existed a significant association between the energy conversion and quality characteristics for the damaged banana, and the energy transformation affected the individuals physiological and biochemical process. There presented a significant trend on the intensity of the loading mechanical energy against the quality characteristics on above 3 indexes during the storage, but the difference between the individual had little effects on it. Decreasing the energy and substance transformation in damage area are the important means of extending the physiology life of fruits, which is an urgent problem to be solved in their field of processing and storage at present.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 195-196)
• Pages: 1265-1270
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.195-196.1265
• Online since: August 2012
• Authors: Feng Ying Xu, Zhen Chen, Peng Cheng Wang, Xiang Jun Zou, Ce Xu, Sheng Jie Deng, Shi Yao Chen
• Keywords: Association, Banana, Damage Evolution, Energy Transformation, Respiration Rate

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