
Biscuit Baking Technology
Processing and Engineering Manual
- 3rd Edition - January 17, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Iain Davidson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 2 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 1 4 2 - 9
Biscuit Baking Technology: Processing and Engineering Manual, Third Edition shares over 50 years of experience in the biscuit baking industry worldwide, and is the most update… Read more
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- Thoroughly explores the engineering of baking, including details about biscuit baking equipment, oven specifications, installation, operation, and maintenance
- Delivers a fully updated third edition that examines new technical developments in baking oven design, particularly for baking by infrared radiation, NIR, FIR, and dielectric heating
- Provides details of best industry practices for safety, hygiene, and maintenance of ovens
- Contains new content on filled cookies and snack cakes, 3D, and puzzle biscuit designs
- Adds a new chapter on specifying and purchasing a new oven, including examples, comparison of quotations, and recommended contract details
1 THE BISCUITS
Images and process for:
• Crackers
• Hard sweet biscuits
• Short doughs
• Cookies
• Long shelf life cakes
• Snack cakes
Ingredients
• Wheat flour
• Wheat gluten
• Cornflour
• Starch
• Sugar
• Leavening agents
• Fats
• Vegetable oils
• Emulsifiers
2. BAKING PROCESS
• Structure and texture
• Moisture removal
• Colour and flavour
3 BISCUIT DESIGN AND OUTPUT
• Cutter and moulding roll layouts
• Scrap and scrap-less designs
• 3D, puzzle and new designs
• Docker pins
• Oven band loadings
• Oven size and output calculations
4 HEAT TRANSFER
• Radiation
• Conduction
• Convection
5 OVEN DESIGNS
• Heat transfer methods
• Direct gas fired ovens
• Electric ovens
• Indirect radiant ovens
• Conduction heat transfer
• Convection baking
• “Re-circ” ovens
• Hybrid ovens
• Dielectric heating
6 OVEN SPECIFICATIONS: hybrid ovens
• Crackers
• Light carrier products
• Semi-sweet biscuits
• Short dough biscuits
• Soft dough cookies
• Calculation of oven zone lengths
• Measuring baking profiles
• Heat flux
7 OVEN CONSTRUCTION: Direct Gas Fired Ovens
• Baking chamber construction
• Insulation
• Extraction system
• Explosion relief
• Inspection and clean out doors
• Gas burner system
• Combustion air
• Temperature control system
• Ribbon burners
• Multi-fibre burners burners
• Control panels
8 OVEN CONSTRUCTION: Indirect Fired Ovens
• Baking chambers
• Heater module
• Radiant tubes
• Circulation and extraction fans
• Explosion relief
• Inspection and clean out doors
Indirect Fired Oven burners
• Weishaupt burners
• Maxon burners
9 LOCAL OVEN MANUFACTURE
• Management and location
• Contractors
• Manufacturing drawings
• Parts procurement
• Assembly
• Installation
• Commissioning
10 HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM
• Heat recovery
• Burner flue and collection pipe
• Final radiant oven zone
• Calculations of hot air flow
11 OVEN CONVEYOR BANDS
Wire mesh bands
• La Bridoire (Agrati)
• Ashworth
• Steinhaus Gmbh
• Cambridge ES
• Skid bar supports
• Return band supports
• Oven band cleaning
• Oven band tracking
• Joining wire-mesh bands
Compound Balanced Weave bands
• Ashworth CB5 / CB3
• Oven band supports
• Oven band tracking
• Joining CB bands
Steel bands
• Specifications
• Steel band supports
• Joining steel bands
• Steel band cleaners
• Steel band greasing
• Steel band tracking
12 OVEN CONVEYOR DESIGN
• Oven feed end unit
• Oven terminal drums
• Oven band tension system
• Delivery end unit
• Delivery end drum
• Oven band drives
• UPS system
• Stripping conveyor
• Oven end hood design
• Calculation of oven band tension
• Calculation of electric motor size
13 PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS
• PLC control
• Temperature monitoring and control
• Temperature controllers
• PID control
• Top and bottom temperature control
• Baking time
• Humidity
• Colour control
• Colour measurement
14. OVEN SAFETY MONITORING AND ALARM
• Oven band tracking
• Oven band drive
• Emergency oven band drive
• Oven band tension
• Oven burners and gas system
• Burner control
• Burner flame safety
• Excess temperature
• Extraction and combustion air fans
General safety equipment and instructions
• Guards
• Operation, cleaning and maintenance
• Protection of employees
• Emergency shutdown
15 OVEN OPERATION: Direct Gas Fired Oven
• Starting the oven
• Lighting the burners
• Heating up / start of production
• Shutting down the oven
16 OVEN OPERATION: Indirect Radiant Oven
• Preparation
• Starting the oven
• Lighting the burners
• Heating up / production
• Damper controls
• Shutting down the oven
• Control of Heat Recovery System
17 OVEN OPERATION: Convection Oven
• Preparation
• Starting the oven
• Lighting the burners
• Heating up / production
• Damper controls
• Shutting down the oven
• Control of Heat Recovery System
18 OVEN EFFICIENCY
• Energy use
• Heat loss
• Energy consumption
• Heat energy diagram
• Comparison of efficiency for different ovens
• Energy required for different biscuits
• Comparing fuel costs
19 OVEN INSPECTION AND AUDIT
• Oven performance
• Product specification / compliance
• Energy usage
• Oven band
• Emergency drive
• Band cleaner
• Baking chamber
• Fans and pressure switches
• Gas / oil trains
• DGF burners
• Indirect burners
• Temperature control systems
• Measuring baking profiles
• Control and electrical panels
- Edition: 3
- Published: January 17, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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