Table B.2.

Table of basic thermodynamic parameters for different insulators and fish, water, ice and air

	Thermal conductivity (k; in W/m °C)	Specific heat capacity (Cp, in kJ/kg°C)	Density (ρ, in kg/m3)	Reference
Fat fish	0.41	3.50	1,025	Rahman (2009), Tolstorebrov et al. (2019) and Radhakrishnan (1997)
Lean fish	0.43	3.73	1,054	Margeirsson et al. (2012)
Tubs a	0.05	2.3	70
Non‐insulated boxes b	0.44	1.64	930
Water	$-0.869083936+0.00894880345\times \mathrm{T}-1.58366345\times {10}^{-5}\times {\mathrm{T}}^2+7.97543259\times {10}^{-9}\times {\mathrm{T}}^3$	$\left(12010.1471-80.4072879\times \mathrm{T}+0.309866854\times {\mathrm{T}}^2-5.38186884\times {10}^{-4}\times {\mathrm{T}}^3+3.62536437\times {10}^{-7}\times {\mathrm{T}}^4\right)/1,000$	$0.000063092789034\times {\mathrm{T}}^3-0.060367639882855\times {\mathrm{T}}^2+18.922938247066\times \mathrm{T}-9.50.704055329848$	Comsol default function of temperature (T)
Air	pA × 0.02897/Rcons[K × mol/J]/T with Rconst[K × mol/J] = 8.3145 and ${\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{A}}=1\left[\text{atm}\right]$	$\left(1047.63657-0.372589265\times \mathrm{T}+9.45304214\times {10}^{-4}\times {\mathrm{T}}^2-6.02409443\times {10}^{-7}\times {\mathrm{T}}^3+1.2858961\times {10}^{-10}\times {\mathrm{T}}^4\right)1,000$	$-0.00227583562+1.15480022\times {10}^{-4}\times \mathrm{T}-7.90252856\times {10}^{-8}\times {\mathrm{T}}^2+4.11702505\times {10}^{-11}\times {\mathrm{T}}^3-7.43864331\times {10}^{-15}\times T^4$	Comsol default function of temperature (T)
Ice	2.31	2.052	918	Comsol (example of ‘Phase change’ in library)

^aPolyethylene foam of the core of the container.

^bHigh‐density polyethylene (HDPE).