Fundamentals and Operations in Food Process Engineering deals with the basic engineering principles and transport processes applied to food processing, followed by specific unit operations with a large number of worked-out examples and problems for practice in each chapter. The book is divided into four sections: fundamentals in food process engineering, mechanical operations in food processing, thermal operations in food processing and mass transfer operations in food processing. The book is designed for students pursuing courses on food science and food technology, including a broader section of scientific personnel in the food processing and related industries.

Written for the upper level undergraduate, this updated book is also a solid reference for the graduate food engineering student and professional. This edition features the addition of sections on freezing, pumps, the use of chemical reaction kinetic date for thermal process optimization, and vacuum belt drying. New sections on accurate temperature measurements, microbiological inactivation curves, inactivation of microorganisms and enzymes, pasteurization, and entrainment are included, as are non-linear curve fitting and processes dependent on fluid film thickness. Other sections have been expanded.

A unique and interdisciplinary field, food processing must meet basic process engineering considerations such as material and energy balances, as well as the more specialized requirements of food acceptance, human nutrition, and food safety. Food engineering, therefore, is a field of major concern to university departments of food science, and chemical and biological engineering as well as engineers and scientists working in various food processing industries. Part of the notable CRC Press Contemporary Food Engineering series, Food Process Engineering Operations focuses on the application of chemical engineering unit operations to the handling, processing, packaging, and distribution of food products. Chapters 1 through 5 open the text with a review of the fundamentals of process engineering and food processing technology, with typical examples of food process applications. The body of the book then covers food process engineering operations in detail, including theory, process equipment, engineering operations, and application examples and problems. Based on the authors’ long teaching and research experience both in the US and Greece, this highly accessible textbook employs simple diagrams to illustrate the mechanism of each operation and the main components of the process equipment. It uses simplified calculations requiring only elementary calculus and offers realistic values of food engineering properties taken from the published literature and the authors’ experience. The appendix contains useful engineering data for process calculations, such as steam tables, engineering properties, engineering diagrams, and suppliers of process equipment. Designed as a one or two semester textbook for food science students, Food Process Engineering Operations examines the applications of process engineering fundamentals to food processing technology making it an important reference for students of chemical and biological engineering interested in food engineering, and for scientists, engineers, and technologists working in food processing industries.

Food Engineering Handbook: Food Process Engineering addresses the basic and applied principles of food engineering methods used in food processing operations around the world. Combining theory with a practical, hands-on approach, this book examines the thermophysical properties and modeling of selected processes such as chilling, freezing, and dehydration. A complement to Food Engineering Handbook: Food Engineering Fundamentals, this text: Discusses size reduction, mixing, emulsion, and encapsulation Provides case studies of solid–liquid and supercritical fluid extraction Explores fermentation, enzymes, fluidized-bed drying, and more Presenting cutting-edge information on new and emerging food engineering processes, Food Engineering Handbook: Food Process Engineering is an essential reference on the modeling, quality, safety, and technologies associated with food processing operations today.

Written for the upper level undergraduate, this updated book is also a solid reference for the graduate food engineering student and professional. This edition features the addition of sections on freezing, pumps, the use of chemical reaction kinetic date for thermal process optimization, and vacuum belt drying. New sections on accurate temperature measurements, microbiological inactivation curves, inactivation of microorganisms and enzymes, pasteurization, and entrainment are included, as are non-linear curve fitting and processes dependent on fluid film thickness. Other sections have been expanded.

This book on "Food Engineering Fundamentals" covers the Unit operations part of Food Engineering subject of Bachelor of Food Technology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. However, it can be used to serve as a text or as a reference book for students, professionals, and others engaged in agricultural science and food engineering, food science, and food technology. This book is also intended to be a step-by-step workbook that will help the students to practice solving food engineering problems.

This is a new book on food process engineering which treats the principles of processing in a scientifically rigorous yet concise manner, and which can be used as a lead in to more specialized texts for higher study. It is equally relevant to those in the food industry who desire a greater understanding of the principles of the food processes with which they work. This text is written from a quantitative and mathematical perspective and is not simply a descriptive treatment of food processing. The aim is to give readers the confidence to use mathematical and quantitative analyses of food processes and most importantly there are a large number of worked examples and problems with solutions. The mathematics necessary to read this book is limited to elementary differential and integral calculus and the simplest kind of differential equation.

Food technology is the application of food science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution and use of safe nutritious and wholesome food. The amalgamation of food technology with engineering operations has given birth to the discipline of food engineering. The book is divided into four parts. The first part begins with a brief introduction to food technology and its historical importance and development. The second part covers the basic principles, materials and energy balance concepts that prepare a solid ground for easy comprehension of the technologies involved. The third part, which deals with unit operations in food processing, is the core component of the book. It includes all the transport phenomena, mechanical operations, size reduction, grinding and milling. A separate chapter is devoted to microwave heating in view of its importance in food processing. Dehydration, solvent extraction, distillation, and mechanical operations have been discussed extensively. The fourth part deals with food industry management, and the peripheral and integrated food engineering operations. The book caters to the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students of food engineering and technology and food science and technology. KEY FEATURES • Provides numerous worked-out examples. • Explains the concepts without excessive mathematical expressions and derivations. • Covers all engineering principles that are needed for a successful operation of a food processing plant. • Includes an extensive set of review questions at the end of each chapter. NEW TO THE EDITION • Introduces a new chapter on fermentation highlighting its benefits and applications in food processing industry. • Incorporates a section on emulsification discussing machinery and equipment used in the process, challenges and its applications in food processing. • Revises numerical calculations for appropriateness. TARGET AUDIENCE • B.Tech. Food Engineering and Technology • B.Tech/M. Tech. Food Processing and Engineering • M.Tech. Food Engineering and Technology • B.Sc. Food Technology

FUNDAMENTALS OF FOOD PROCESS ENGINEERING is intended as a text book for the academician, researchers and students of UG- and PG- levels in food science and technology, chemical engineering, food biotechnology, and process and food engineering, who are interested in the various aspects of processing, packaging, storage, preservation, safety and quality control and measurement, and design of food and chemical plants and equipments. As the name indicates, the book describes the fundamental principles involved in process and food engineering and their major applications in the field of food and bioprocess engineering. Second objective behind preparing the book is to meet syllabus of the candidates or students in process and food engineering those are preparing themselves for ARS, NET, SRF, JRF, IFS, and GATE Examinations. The book has been prepared taking account the syllabus of the Agricultural Structure and Process Engineering for the UGand PG- students in the course Agricultural Engineering. The book deals with various physical, thermal, frictional, textural, and viscoelastic properties of food materials; various mechanical and thermal food processing operations; basis electrical engineering, instrumentation and process control systems in food processing operation; and food plant and equipment design. Problems of last couple of years of GATE and ARS are included in each chapter in the book in order to make easy of understanding the concepts of various principles and to make students/ candidates with the question pattern of various competitive examination held in Agricultural Engineering subject.

"1. Introduction to Unit Operations Fundamental Concepts 1.1 Process The word process refers to the set of activities or industrial operations that modify the properties of raw materials, with the purpose of obtaining products to satisfy the needs of society. Such modifications of natural raw materials are designed to obtain products with greater acceptance in the market or with better possibilities for storage and transport. The primary needs of human beings, whether for the individual or society as a whole, did not change much through history; the three basics of food, clothing, and housing were needed by prehistoric humans as well as by modern ones for survival. The fulfillment of these necessities is carried out by employing, transforming, and consuming the resources available in our natural surroundings. In the early stages of humankind's social development, natural products were used directly or with only small physical modifications. This simple productive scheme changed as society developed, in a way such that at the present time raw materials are often not directly used to satisfy necessities, but rather they are subjected to physical and chemical transformations that convert them into products with different properties. In this way, the raw materials not only directly fulfill the necessities of consumers but also constitute the basis for the products derived from the manipulation of such raw materials. 1.2 Food Process Engineering By analogy with other engineering branches, different definitions of food process engineering can be given"--