Food Process Engineering and Technology

Food Process Engineering and Technology, Third Edition combines scientific depth with practical usefulness, creating a tool for graduate students and practicing food engineers, technologists and researchers looking for the latest information on transformation and preservation processes and process control and plant hygiene topics. This fully updated edition provides recent research and developments in the area, features sections on elements of food plant design, an introductory section on the elements of classical fluid mechanics, a section on non-thermal processes, and recent technologies, such as freeze concentration, osmotic dehydration, and active packaging that are discussed in detail.

Provides a strong emphasis on the relationship between engineering and product quality/safetyConsiders cost and environmental factorsPresents a fully updated, adequate review of recent research and developments in the areaIncludes a new, full chapter on elements of food plant designCovers recent technologies, such as freeze concentration, osmotic dehydration, and active packaging that are discussed in detail

1. Physical Properties of Food Materials 2. Fluid Flow 3. Heat and Mass Transfer, Basic Principles 4. Reaction Kinetics 5. Elements of Process Control 6. Size Reduction 7. Mixing 8. Filtration 9. Centrifugation 10. Membrane Processes 11. Extraction 12. Adsorption and Ion Exchange 13. Distillation 14. Crystallization and Dissolution 15. Extrusion 16. Spoilage and Preservation of Foods 17. Thermal Processing 18. Thermal Processes, Methods and Equipment 19. Refrigeration, Chilling and Freezing 20. Refrigeration, Equipment and Methods 21. Evaporation 22. Dehydration 23. Freeze-Drying (Lyophilization) and Freezed Concentration 24. Frying, Baking, Roasting 25. Ionizing Irradiation and other Non-thermal Preservation Processes 26. Food Packaging 27. Cleaning, Disinfection, Sanitation