METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATING A RAW AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT WITH A TREATMENT GAS

• Main Authors: Billett, Barry, Ernst, William, Beers, Steven
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.05.2024
• Subjects: CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

Disclosed herein are devices and methods for controlled delivery of a treatment gas to treat a raw agricultural product, for example by contacting the raw agricultural product with the treatment gas. The devices and methods can deliver a dose of the treatment gas at a relative velocity, wherein the dose of the treatment gas and the relative velocity are selected in view of the surface reactivity of the raw agricultural product to be treated.