1st Edition

Food Process Engineering Safety Assurance and Complements

By F. Xavier Malcata Copyright 2020
574 Pages 257 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

574 Pages 257 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Food Process Engineering: Safety Assurance and Complements pursues a logical sequence of coverage of industrial processing of food and raw material where safety and complementary issues are germane. Measures to guarantee food safety are addressed at start, and the most relevant intrinsic and extrinsic factors are reviewed, followed by description of unit operations that control microbial activity... Read more

Contents

Preface..................................................................................................................xv

Author................................................................................................................ xvii

1 Safety Assurance................................................................................................1

1.1 Preservation.......................................................................................................2

1.2 Blanching, pasteurization, and sterilization.....................................................76

1.3 Chilling...........................................................................................................122

1.4 Freezing/storage/thawing................................................................................139

1.5 Irradiation....................................................................................................... 185

2 Complementary Operations.............................................................................207

2.1 Handling, cleaning, disinfection, rinsing, and effluent treatment....................207

2.2 Packaging.........................................................................................................269

3 Industrial Utilities.............................................................................................. 331

3.1 Introduction....................................................................................................... 331

3.2 Product and process overview............................................................................338

3.3 Mathematical simulation....................................................................................355

4 Bibliography and Useful Mathematical Formulae...........................................457

4.1 Bibliographic references and further reading.....................................................457

4.2 Algebra................................................................................................................473

4.3 Calculus...............................................................................................................494

4.4 Statistics.............................................................................................................. 533

Index..........................................................................................................................541

Biography

F. Xavier Malcata