Fundamentals and Operations in Food Process Engineering

This revised edition of Fundamentals and Operations in Food Process Engineering has been adequately expanded with four new chapters covering distillation, leaching and extraction, high-temperature food processing, and conveying systems in food processing. It now features five main sections: fundamentals in food processing (five chapters), mechanical operations in food processing (three chapters), thermal operations in food processing (three chapters), mass transfer operations in food processing (five chapters), and high-temperature and conveying operations in food processing (two chapters). These 18 chapters in the second edition address basic engineering principles and applications in food processing, focusing on specific analytical problems and on comprehensive, systematic, and analytical approaches leading to designing various food processing systems. This volume includes approximately 250 worked-out examples and 185 exercise problems to enhance students' understanding and interest.

Features

• Balanced coverage of fundamentals and quantitative analyses for comprehensive learning.
• Elaborate discussion on all the unit operations in food processing with illustrations and figures.
• Conveying systems and high-temperature processing techniques have been included for wider coverage.
• Solving numerical problems without using complex charts and figures
• Numerical problems and exercise problems have practical relevance to the food processing operations.

This revised volume with additional chapters has been designed for undergraduates and graduate students of any branch of Food Science and Process Engineering, Dairy Science and Engineering, Food Technology or allied engineering disciplines pursuing minor in Food Process Engineering and Technology, as well as for the persons in industries, practicing engineers who desire a good understanding of the fundamental principles of the process fundamentals and the operations related to the food processing systems.