Softening of foods by pulsed power for aged persons
Project/Area Number |
25630112
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Power engineering/Power conversion/Electric machinery
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Research Institution | Kumamoto University |
Principal Investigator |
Akiyama Hidenori 熊本大学, パルスパワー科学研究所, 教授 (50126827)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HOSSEINI HamidReza 熊本大学, パルスパワー科学研究所, 教授 (00543406)
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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Keywords | パルスパワー / パルス電界 / 非加熱調理器 / 食物の軟化 / 高齢者 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Pulsed power has thus far been applied to foods for their sterilization and extraction of vegetable juice; juice yield from sugar beets, for example, has increased using pulsed electric fields. The aging of the Japanese population calls for food softening methods in order to maintain life quality. Here, effects of pulsed power on hardness of vegetables and fruit are investigated using a pulsed power generator. Vegetables or fruit are set between plane electrodes placed into tap water. Foods’ hardness was found to decrease with increasing pulsed power shot number, while its internal temperature did not change. There was no influence of pulsed power on Vitamin C. The influence of the pulsed electric field on phloem rays is considered to cause vegetables and fruits to soften.
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Report
(4 results)
Research Products
(41 results)
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[Journal Article] Investigation of Gas Flow Dependence of Plasma Jet Produced by Pulsed Power2015
Author(s)
Yamamoto, A., Kawano, Y., Nakai, M., Nakagawa, T., Sakugawa, T., Hosseini, H., Akiyama, H.
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Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume: 43 (10)
Issue: 10
Pages: 3451-3455
DOI
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Peer Reviewed
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[Journal Article] In vivo effects of focused shock waves on tumor tissue visualized by fluorescence staining techniques2015
Author(s)
Lukes, P., Zeman, J., Horak, V., Hoffer, P., Pouckova, P., Holubova, M., Hosseini, S.H.R., Akiyama, H., Sunka, P., Benes, J.
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Journal Title
Bioelectrochemistry
Volume: 103
Pages: 103-110
DOI
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Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
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[Journal Article] Effects of burst electromagnetic wave focusing and their combination with nanosecond pulsed electric fields on HeLa S3 cells2015
Author(s)
Ishizawa, H., Hosseini, H., Yoshida, D., Sugimoto, K., Nejad, S.M., Katsuki, S., Akiyama, H.
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Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume: 43 (4)
Issue: 4
Pages: 1093-1099
DOI
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Peer Reviewed
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[Journal Article] Characteristics of Microplasma Jet using Air Flow and Pulsed Power2015
Author(s)
Inokuchi, M., Akiyama, M., Shimizu, T., Sakugawa, T., Akiyama, H.
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Journal Title
IEEJ Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials
Volume: 135
Issue: 9
Pages: 522-528
DOI
NAID
ISSN
0385-4205, 1347-5533
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Peer Reviewed
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[Journal Article] Time resolved spectroscopy of atomospheric plasma jet driven by pulsed power generator2015
Author(s)
Mori, M., Shimizu, T., Yamamoto, A., Sakugawa, T., Akiyama, H.
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Journal Title
Digest of Technical Papers-IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, 2015-October
Volume: 117245
Pages: 7296890-7296890
DOI
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Peer Reviewed
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