Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering

Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering is the essential reference for engineers who need to understand those aspects of the food industry from farm machinery to food storage facilities to the machinery that processes and packages our foods.

The process of getting food from "farm to fork," as the saying goes, involves more than planting, harvesting, shipping, processing, packaging and distributing—though those are all key components. Effective and efficient food delivery systems are built around processes that maximize the effort while minimizing cost, time, and resource depletion.

This comprehensive reference is for engineers who design and build machinery and processing equipment, shipping containers, and packaging and storage equipment. It includes cutting-edge coverage of microwave vacuum application in grain processing, cacao processing, fruit and vegetable processing, ohmic heating of meat, facility design, closures for glass containers, double seaming, and much more.

Provides cross-topic information for translational research and potential applicationFocuses on design and controls – written for engineers by engineers – always with practical applications in mindIncludes design of machinery and facilities as well as theoretical basis for determining and predicting behavior of foods as they are handled and processed

The Food Engineer - Felix H. Barron and Stephen V. Harrill

Food Regulations - Kevin M. Keener

Food Safety Engineering - Raghupathy Ramaswamy, Juhee Ahn, V. M. Balasubramaniam, Luis Rodriguez Saona, and Ahmed E. Yousef

Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting Cultivation and Harvesting -Brian T. Adams

Air Seeders for Conservation Tillage Crop Production -John Nowatzki

Grain Harvesting Machinery -H. Mark Hanna and Graeme R. Quick

Grain Storage Systems Design -Ray Bucklin, Sid Thompson, Michael Montross and Ali Abdel-Hadi

Milking Machines and Milking Parlors -Douglas J. Reinemann

Dairy Product Processing Equipment -H. Doug Goff

Grain Processing Engineering -Imran Ahmad and Athapol Noomhorm

Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops - Conrad O Perera and Bronwen Smith

Food Drying and Evaporation Processing Operations -William L. Kerr

Food Freezing Technology -K. Muthukumarappan and Chenchaiah Marella

Heat and mass transfer in food processing -Mohammed Farid

Food Rheology -Qixin Zhong and Christopher R. Daubert

Food Extruders -Mian N. Riaz

Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation -Arthur A. Teixeira

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Process Modeling -Mittal

Design of Food Process Controls Systems -Mark T. Morgan and Timothy A. Haley

Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products -James Lyng and Brian M. McKenna

Food Processing Facility Design -Timothy J. Bowser

Sanitary pump selection/application-Timothy J. Bowser

Agricultural waste management in food processing -Conly L. Hansen and Dae Yeol Cheong

Food Packaging Machinery -Harold A. Hughes

Damage reduction of food products during transportation and handling -Jay Singh and S. Paul Singh