Endpoints and Successive-points Method in Predicting Microbial Inactivation and Nutrients Degradation in Processed and Stored Foods

By Dr. Micha Peleg

University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

October 14th, 2016 at 09:00 (Mexico City, MX; UTC -05:00)

Modern interactive software allows a new approach to kinetic modeling and data analysis. This is demonstrated with the recently developed endpoints and successive points methods to estimate microbial inactivation and chemical degradation kinetic parameters from a very small number of isothermal or non-isothermal experimental data. Also introduced are newly posted free Wolfram Demonstrations, and other interactive programs written in Mathematica®, which enables to solve pairs of simultaneous nonlinear algebraic or differential rate equations by moving sliders on the screen.