
Non-thermal Food Processing Operations
Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry
- 1st Edition - November 8, 2022
- Editors: Seid Mahdi Jafari, Nantawan Therdthai
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 7 1 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 7 1 8 - 0
Non-thermal Food Processing Operations, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment ne… Read more

Non-thermal Food Processing Operations, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for the recent invented non-thermal processing of different food products. Divided into six sections, “Ozonation operations “, “Plasma processing operations”, “Irradiation operations”, “Pulsed electric fields processing operations”, “High pressure processing operations”, and “Radio frequency processing operations”, all chapters emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational and/or applications of food engineering principles and the relevant processing equipment needed to low-temperature unit operations.
Written by experts in the field of food engineering in a simple and dynamic way, this book targets Industrial Engineers and food factory workers from the field of food processing. Readers of the book will find information that will help them become more familiar with food processing operations and equipment.
- Thoroughly explores new opportunities in food processing through non-thermal processes
- Helps readers better understand equipment in non-thermal unit operations
- Clarifies different non-thermal processing facilities and equipment for various types of food products
1. Introduction to non-thermal food processes
Section 1-Ozonation operations
2. Principles of ozonation and its equipment
3. Application of ozonation in the food industry
Section 2-Plasma processing operations
4. Principles of Plasma Processing and Its Equipment
5. Application of Plasma processing in the food industry
Section 3-Irradiation operations
6. Principles of irradiation and its equipment
7. Application of irradiation in the food industry
Section 4-Pulsed electric fields processing operations
8. Application of pulsed electric field processing in the food industry
Section 5-High pressure processing operations
9. Principles of high pressure processing and its equipment
10. Application of high pressure processing in ensuring the food safety
11. Application of high pressure processing in freezing and thawing processes
Section 6-Radio frequency processing operations
12. Principles of ultraviolet processing and its equipment and application
Sonication operations
13. Principles of sonication and its equipment in the food industry
14. Application of sonication in the food industry
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 8, 2022
- Language: English
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Seid Mahdi Jafari
Dr. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD degree in 2006 in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has extensive experience in the field of food process engineering, conducting research on nanotechnology and its processes and being reviewer of some important journals as Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, Journal of Food Engineering, Journal of Food Process Engineering, Industrial Crops and Products and Food Technology and Biotechnology. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Pardis, Basidj Square, Gorgan, Iran, and he is an academic member of GAU (Iran). He has published more than 85 papers in top-ranked international food science journals and 18 book chapters, along with editing four books with LAP and Elsevier publishers. In November 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% scientists of the world with the highest citations by Thompson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences.
1. “Encapsulation of Nano-Emulsions by Spray Drying” published by LAP (Germany), 2009,
2. "Nano-encapsulation Technologies for the Food and Nutraceutical Industries", Elsevier, 2017,
3. "Nano-encapsulation of Food Bioactive Ingredients; Principles and Applications", Elsevier, 2017,
4. "Nano-emulsions: Formulation, Characterization, and Applications", Elsevier, 2017 (co-edited with Prof. David Julian McClements).
5 . “Nanoencapsulation in the Food Industry Series”. This is a 7 volume series approved in 2017 that is going to be published over the course of 2019-2021.
and some book chapters such as:
· Jafari, S.M., Fathi, M., and Mandala, I.G., 2015. Chapter 13: "Emerging product formation" in the book "Food Waste Recovery: Processing technologies and industrial techniques", Edited by Galanakis, C., Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-800351-0.
· Jafari, S.M. and McClements, D.J., 2017. Chapter 1: "Nanotechnology approaches for increasing nutrient bioavailability" in the book "Advances in Nutrition and Food Research (Vol. 81)", Edited by Toldra, F., Elsevier.
Locally in Iran, he has also published 20 books in Persian. In November, 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% scientists of the world with the highest citations by Thompson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences.
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