Proposal of optimization guidelines of the buffer packaging design considered the distribution environment dependence of fruit properties

• Project/Area Number: 25660196
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural environmental engineering/Agricultural information engineering
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: YASUNAGA Eriko 東京大学, 農学生命科学研究科, 准教授 (00380543)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OZAKI Shingo 横浜国立大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20408727) ; TAKATA Daisuke 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科, 助教 (80456178)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
• Keywords: 品質保持技術 / フードチェーン / シミュレーション工学 / 農業工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First, we have proposed the new method to evaluate damage of fruit during transportation, based on the field measurement, the laboratory experiment, and the numerical simulation. The proposed method is adopted the time- and temperature-dependent modeling of elasticity. We then conducted the parametric studies with respect to the effect of distribution time, temperature, varieties of peach, and stiffness of fruit cap on the energy absorption. The proposed method might enable us to optimize the property of the energy absorber packing, including the fruit cap and the corrugated box.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Modelling the relationship between peel colour and the quality of fresh mango fruit using Random Forests (2014)
  • Author(s): Fukuda, S., Yasunaga, E., Nagle, M., Yuge, K., Sardsud, V., Spreer, W., Muller, J.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Food Engineering Volume: 131 Pages: 7-17
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Comparison of postharvest quality changes of export mango fruit from different harvest sites in Thailand (2013)
  • Author(s): Yasunaga, E., Fukuda, S.,Yuge, K., Sardsud, V., Spreer, W., Wanwarang, P
  • Journal Title: Acta Horticulturae Volume: 1006 Pages: 423-428
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Comparison of changes in post-harvest quality deterioration of mango fruits between Thailand-Fukuoka and Okinawa-Fukuoka transportations (2013)
  • Author(s): Yasunaga, E., Fukuda, S.,Yuge, K., Sardsud, V., Spreer, W., Wanwarang, P.
  • Journal Title: Acta Horticulturae Volume: 989 Pages: 221-224
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 桃の機械的性質のモデル化とそれを考慮した緩衝包装特性の数値解析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 大野晃寛，稲野辺知礼，尾崎伸吾，高田大輔，安永円理子
  • Organizer: 第73回農業食料工学会年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄県中頭郡（琉球大学）
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-16 – 2014-05-19
• [Presentation] 桃の機械的性質のモデル化とそれを考慮した緩衝包装特性の数値解析 (2014)
  • Author(s): 大野晃寛，稲野辺知礼，尾崎伸吾，高田大輔，安永円理子
  • Organizer: 農業食料工学会
  • Place of Presentation: 琉球大学（沖縄県）
• [Presentation] A model to predict the effects of gas concentrations, temperature and time of storage on quality deterioration of broccoli (Brassica oleracea L.) florets (2013)
  • Author(s): Yasunaga E., T. Uchino, S. Yoshida, F. Tanaka, K. Nakano
  • Organizer: XI Intnl. Controlled & Modified Atmosphere Research Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Trani, Italy
• [Book] スマート農業 農業・農村のイノベーションとサスティナビリティ，3-7ポストハーベスト (2014)
  • Author(s): 農業情報学会編，安永円理子ほか
  • Publisher: 農林統計出版