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Convergence of Digital Twins and food drying technology: How to bring the next generation of dryers to life!?

2025· article· en· W4413044255 on OpenAlexaff
Arman Arefi, Carlos Vilas, Mulugeta Admasu Delele, Petra Foerst, Sebastian Gruber, Mohammad Kaveh, Norhashila Hashim, Maimunah Mohd Ali, Saman Zohrabi, Muhammad Tayyab, Aditya Parmar, Pramod Aradwad, John Ndisya, Waseem Amjad, Majharulislam Babor, Barbara Sturm

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Food Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicDigital Transformation in Industry
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConvergence (economics)Process engineeringEnvironmental scienceEngineeringFood scienceComputer scienceEconomicsChemistryEconomic growth

Abstract

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Digital Twins technology is rapidly growing and has the potential to revolutionize traditional food-processing methods. However, their application in food-drying processes is still in its infancy. This study aimed to explore how Digital Twins can be applied to food drying process. Traditionally, food drying is performed under constant conditions, where air temperature and velocity remain constant. However, the literature review shows that variable drying conditions (trajectories) can improve both energy efficiency and product quality. The challenge is that the trajectories are calculated based on what happened in the process, not what is currently happening. Digital Twins address this shortcoming by enabling decision making based on real-time data. In this conceptual review paper, physiochemical parameters as an element of the physical world of a Digital Twins-based smart food dryer is first presented. Next, potential sensors for building a digital counterpart of the physiochemical parameters are discussed. This is followed by mathematical models, dynamic optimization, and advanced control, which are the core elements of a decision-making and control unit. Finally, future research needs are discussed. This conceptual review paper will guide and give a solid insight to academic researchers, companies, and other potential stakeholders on merging Digital Twins and food drying technologies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.754
Threshold uncertainty score0.423

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.184 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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