The significance of active evaporative cooling system in the shelf life enhancement of vegetables (red and green tomatoes) for minimizing post-harvest losses

Babaremu, Kunle and Adekanye, T. A. and Okokpujie, I.P. and Fayomi, J. and Atiba, O.E. (2019) The significance of active evaporative cooling system in the shelf life enhancement of vegetables (red and green tomatoes) for minimizing post-harvest losses. In: 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Materials Processing and Manufacturing (SMPM 2019).

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Abstract

Tomatoes in its natural state remains highly sort after as a result of its domestic relevance in most homes. In a bit to reduce the amount of losses that occurs after harvest, storage amongst many others is seen to be a very germane consideration to enhancing the shelf life of tomatoes. Samples of red tomatoes were gotten from a popular market in omu-aran town, Kwara state, Nigeria and green tomatoes samples were gotten from the green house in Landmark University teaching and research farm, omu-aran, kwara state Nigeria. The samples were stored in an active evaporative cooling system for a period of seven days. A few samples were also placed in the ambient environment of the evaporative cooler to carry out a load-test on the cooler. The emerging result shows that after the seventh day, the red tomatoes and green tomatoes that was stored in cooler had a percentage weight loss of 8.65% and 1.54% respectively. While the red and green tomatoes samples that was stored in the ambient environment had a percentage weight loss of 47.20% and 5.14% respectively. This outcome implies that the evaporative cooler with an average cooling efficiency of 86.01% was able to optimize the shelf life of the red and green tomatoes.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: S Agriculture > SB Plant culture
Depositing User: Mr DIGITAL CONTENT CREATOR LMU
Date Deposited: 23 Oct 2019 11:22
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2019 11:22
URI: https://eprints.lmu.edu.ng/id/eprint/2598

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