Preface; Contributors; Reviewers; 1 Introduction; 2 Fundamental Heat Transfer Theory for Thermal Treatments; 3 Temperature Measurement; 4 Physiological Responses of Agricultural Commodities to Heat Treatments; 5 Experimental and Simulation Methods of Insect Thermal Death Kinetics; 6 Biology and Thermal Death Kinetics of Selected Insects; 7 Thermal Control of Fungi in the Reduction of Postharvest Decay; 8 Disinfestation of Stored Products and Associated Structures Using Heat; 9 Considerations for Phytosanitary Heat Treatment Research; 10 Heat with Controlled Atmospheres.
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This book provides comprehensive information of increasingly important treatments, covering temperature measurement, heat transfer, physiological responses of plants, insects and pathogens to heat, and an introduction to current and potential quarantine treatments based on hot air, hot water, and radio frequency energy.