Weibullian Inactivation Rate as a Function of Temperature


	This second of five Demonstrations is a plot of the nonlinear Weibullian inactivation rate, , a measure of a microorganism's heat resistance, as a function of temperature (in degrees C). You can vary the two parameters of the log-logistic equation: the lethal temperature marker, , and the lethality rate factor, , which controls the slope of the curve at temperatures >> . Notice the automatic scaling of the axis; it is different in each example.


	Contributed by: Mark D. Normand and Micha Peleg
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This is the second of five Demonstrations of functions used to model thermal processing of foods for the purpose of eliminating the presence of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms. The five Demonstrations allow slider-control manipulation of the plots of:

1) an 8-parameter nonlinear "temperature profile", temperature (in degrees C) versus time (in minutes)

2) a 2-parameter nonlinear Weibullian rate,

, as a function of temperature (in degrees C)