A New Mathematical Model for Food Thermal Process Prediction

Table 1

Comparison of process time calculated using 𝑔 values from the Stumbo [7] tables, ANN model of Sablani and Shayya [21], ANN model of Mittal and Zhang [22], and mathematical model of this work.

	RMS (min)	Deviations or absolute error (min)			SD	Slope of line in Figure 5
		Max	Min	Ave
Sablani and Shayya [21]	1.164	2.57	0.05	0.936	0.697	1.011
Mittal and Zhang [22]	0.612	1.63	0.01	0.466	0.400	0.999
This work	0.567	1.61	0.003	0.421	0.380	1.001

RMS: root mean square of deviations; SD: standard deviations.