Industrial utilization of macroalgae is in a rapid development in Europe, where the final products have several applications such as food and health, feed, manure, biofuels and chemicals. Norway has an extensive coastline and an existing know-how on processing of marine raw material and related infr...

The study is devoted to the investigation of heat transfer phenomena of Atlantic salmon in refrigerated sea water with the aim to clarify strategies of large scale industrial chilling of big-size fishes. Experiments were conducted using polyurethane copies of real fishes (3.5 and 6.0 kg), which were...

This papers is summing up main challenges which occur at large-scale industrial slaughter houses when chilling Atlantic salmon by refrigerated sea water (RSW). The study includes strategies of efficient chilling in 100 m 3 spiral tanks based on the field tests. Analysis showed high density of fish i...

After harvesting, the Norwegian root vegetables are normally stored at refrigerated temperatures for 5 to 7 months. During this period, up to 30% of the products are lost. The goal is to reduce the diseases, the product loss and energy consumption, in addition to increase shelf-life and storage peri...