1st Edition

Introduction to Advanced Food Process Engineering

Edited By Jatindra Kumar Sahu Copyright 2014
718 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

718 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

717 Pages
by CRC Press

Food materials are processed prior to their consumption using different processing technologies that improve their shelf life and maintain their physicochemical, biological, and sensory qualities. Introduction to Advanced Food Process Engineering provides a general reference on various aspects of processing, packaging, storage, and quality control and assessment systems, describing the basic... Read more

Section I: Advances in Food Process Engineering

Microwave and Radio Frequency Heating of Food Products: Fundamentals, Modeling, and Applications
Deepak Kumar , Ganti S. Murthy, and Gopal Tiwari

Emerging Drying Technologies for Agricultural Products
Chung Lim Law, Wan Ramli Wang Daud, and Arun S. Mujumdar

Osmo-Concentration of Foods
Sujata Jena and H. Das

Membrane Processing of Food Materials
Satyanarayan Dev, Abid Hussain, and Vijaya Raghavan

High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing of Food Materials
P. Srinivasan Rao, S. Chakraborty, N. Kaushik, B. Pal Kaur, and N.R. Swam i Hulle

High Voltage Pulsed Electric Field Processing of Foods
Jatindra K. Sahu

Cold Pasteurization of Fruit Juices Using Pulsed Electric Fields
Faiyaz Ahmed

Ultrasonic System for Food Processing
Balunkeswar Nayak

CA and MA Storage of Fruits and Vegetables
T.K. Goswami, and S. Mangaraj

Innovation in Food Packaging
Mohammad Shafiur Rahman

Nanotechnology in Food Processing
Sanjib K. Paul and Jatindra K. Sahu

Computational Fluid Dynamics in Food Processing
Tomás Norton and Brijesh Tiwari

Section II: Food Safety and Quality Assessment

Safety and Quality Management in Food Processing
Alok Jha , Catherine W. Donnelly, Ashutosh Upadhyay, and B.S. Buskar

Biosensors for Food Safety
Amit Singh , Somayyeh Poshtiban, and Stephane Evoy

Machine Vision Systems for Food Quality Assessment
C. Karunakaran, N.S. Visen, J. Paliwal, G. Zhang, D.S. Jayas, and N.D.G. White

Vibrational Spectroscopy for Food Processing
Wenbo Wang and J. Paliwal

Chemosensor (Electronic Nose) for Food Quality Evaluation
P. Kumar Mallikarjunan

Section III: Waste and Byproduct Management and Energy Conservation

Waste Management in Food Processing
Lijun Wang

Waste Minimization and Utilization in the Food Industry: Valorization of Food Industry Wastes and Byproducts
Nóra Pap , Eva Pongrácz, Liisa Myllykoski, and Riitta L. Keiski

Energy-Efficient Food Processing: Principles and Practices
M.K. Hazarika

Index

Biography

Dr. Jatindra K. Sahu, is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering in Assam University, India. His research focuses on developing or improving dairy and food processing technologies in the field of food process engineering. His major contributions to food industries include a continuous heat-acid coagulation unit for continuous production of soft cheese, a sandesh (an Indian milk sweet) production line, technology for bamboo shoot-based nugget production, technology for honey powder production, Light Emitting Diode (LED) based technology for non-thermal pasteurization of fruit juices, and more.