Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing

Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-12-818473-8
Verlag: Elsevier Inc

Buch, Englisch, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 1139 g

Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing, volume 1 in the Woodhead Publishing Series, In Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, presents basic principles of food engineering with an emphasis on unit operations, such as heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid mechanics.

Zielgruppe

<p>: food engineers, undergraduate and graduate students in Food Science and Technology, and also, for technologists, researchers, and all the people concerned with food processing operations</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jafari, Seid Mahdi

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to unit operations and process description

Section 1 Fundamentals of food process engineering 2. Units and dimensions 3. General mathematical and engineering principles 4. Physical properties of food materials 5. Thermodynamic properties of food materials 6. Mass and energy balances

Section 2 Fluid mechanics and food rheology 7. Fluid mechanics 8. Rheological properties of food materials

Section 3 Heat and mass transfer in food engineering 9. Conductive heat transfer 10. Convective heat transfer 11. Radiative heat transfer 12. Fundamentals of mass transfer 13. Psychrometry

Section 4 Application of mathematics and statistical approaches in food engineering 14. Modeling and optimization 15. Reaction kinetics

Über Autor(innen)

Jafari, Seid Mahdi
Prof. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), in 2007. Now, he is a

full-time Prof. in GUASNR (Iran) and part-time Prof. in SAAS (China).

He has published more than 850 papers in International Journals (h-index=124

in Scopus and 136 in Google Scholar) and 110 book chapters/40 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Selected achievements:

- One of the world’s highly cited researchers (1% top scientists) by Scopus (Elsevier)

- One of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology

- One of the world’s highly cited researchers (HCR; 0.1% top scientists) by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science)

- A top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons.