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Thermal Processing of Food Products by Steam and Hot Water

Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

  • 1st Edition - November 10, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Seid Mahdi Jafari
  • Language: English

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Description

Thermal Processing of Food Products by Steam and Hot Water, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for the thermal processing of different food products by applying steam and hot water. Sections cover an overview of thermal food processing, heat exchangers in the food processing industry, different thermal processing operations in the food industry, and applications of heat exchanges. All sections emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational and/or the applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment.

Written by experts in the field of food engineering, in a simple and dynamic way, this book targets industrial engineers working in the field of food processing and within food factories to make them more familiar with the particular food processing operations and equipment.

Key features

  • Thoroughly explores novel applications of thermal unit operations in the food industry
  • Evaluates different alternatives for thermal processing operations
  • Covers the application of heat exchangers in the food industry

Readership

Technologists, researchers, investors, government officials, and all the people concerned with food processing operations; undergraduate and graduate students in Food Science and Technology

Table of contents

Section 1 An overview of thermal food processing

1. Introduction to thermal food processes

2. Thermal food process calculations

3. Design and simulation of heat exchangers

Section 2 Heat exchangers in the food processing industry

4. Plate heat exchangers

5. Tubular heat exchangers

6. Shell and tube heat exchangers

7. Direct heat exchangers

8. Other heat exchangers

Section 3 Different thermal processing operations in the food industry

9. Blanching

10. Exhausting

11. Pasteurization

12. Sterilization

Section 4 Application of heat exchangers in the food industry

13. Heat exchangers in the dairy industry

14. Heat exchangers in the fruit juice industry

15. Heat exchangers in the beverages and sugar industry

16. Heat exchangers in the canneries

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 10, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

SJ

Seid Mahdi Jafari

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.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, 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

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