The Effect of Evaporative Cooling System on the Storage of Citrus (Sweet Orange)

Babaremu, Kunle and Adekanye, T. A. and Okokpujie, I.P. and Omodara, M.O. and Fayomi, J. The Effect of Evaporative Cooling System on the Storage of Citrus (Sweet Orange). Journal of Physics.

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Abstract

Postharvest losses have been a very perpetual challenge facing the agricultural industries as most produce gets spoilt after harvest owing to poor postharvest handlings. Several attempts have been made to eliminate this challenge ranging from transportation, packaging, and storage. The panacea to this problem is still much work in progress. However, a developed cooler with a cooling efficiency of 86.01% which was immensely able to salvage the rapid deterioration challenge of fruits as ascertained through seven days of concurrent storage of sweet oranges in a cooler and ambient. The result shows that the cooler successfully improved the shelf life of the stored produce with about 4% weight loss of the stored citrus compared to the 9% weight loss of the ambient storage.

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