The invention provides a picking, pre-cooling and storing integrated basket, application thereof, and a method for pre-cooling small-fruit-
diameter perishable fruits, and belongs to the technical field of fruit and vegetable picking after-treatment. Based on the design of the picking, pre-cooling and storing integrated basket, the
modes of standard picking, pre-cooling, storing boxes and trays areadopted, the method for pre-cooling small-fruit-
diameter perishable fruits is successfully provided,
standardization of a
cold chain process is easily realized, semi-automatic operation in the process is realized, and labor and time are saved. Meanwhile, a critical
freeze injury temperature method is adopted for delivering air, in this way, pre-
cooling time can be effectively shortened, pre-
cooling energy consumption can be effectively lowered, meanwhile, a quench effect can be realized in fruit and vegetable pre-cooling treatment, and the storing circulating deadline of follow-up steps is delayed; an alternate-air-delivery variable-air direction method is adopted, in this way, the uniformity of the pre-cooling process is improved, and the phenomenon of dead zones during pre-cooling heattransfer is prevented; a time-period-division variable-air speed air
delivery mode is adopted, so that while the pre-
cooling time is guaranteed, the pre-
cooling energy consumption is lowered.