Optimizing precooling of large beef carcasses using a comprehensive computational fluid dynamics model

Precooling has been questioned as a suitable step in the process of beef carcass cooling. Model‐based optimization was performed to identify optimum operating conditions for different heavy‐muscled beef carcass cooling practices in slaughterhouses with both precooling and cooling stages. The study was conducted using a validated computational fluid dynamics model of the beef carcass cooling process. The precooling practice was optimized based on...