Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories
Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry
- 1st Edition - August 26, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Seid Mahdi Jafari, Narjes Malekjani
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for storage and transportation of food materials within food production factories. Divided into four sections, Receiving and storage facilities, Liquid food transportation, Solid and semi- solid transportation and General material handling machines in food plants, all sections emphasize basic content relating to experimental, theoretical, computational and/or applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment.
Written by experts in the field of food engineering in a simple and dynamic way, the book targets all who are engaged in worldwide food processing operations, giving readers comprehensive knowledge and an understanding of different transporting facilities and equipments.
Key features
Key features
- Thoroughly explores alternatives in food processing through innovative transporting operations
- Brings novel applications of pumping and conveying operations in food industries
- Covers how to improve the quality and safety of food products with good transporting operations
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction to food materials handling within food factories
Section 1 Receiving and storage facilities
2. Storage vats, vessels, and tanks
3. Pallets and bags
4. Silos and bins
Section 2 Liquid food transportation
5. Fundamentals of pumping/piping
6. Positive displacement pumps
7. Centrifugal pumps
Section 3 Solid and semi- solid transportation
8. Fundamentals of conveyors
9. Different mechanical conveyors
10. Pneumatic conveyors
11. Hydraulic conveyors
12. Bucket elevators and monorails
Section 4 General material handling machines in food plants
13. Hand trucks, lift trucks, rich trucks
14. Robotics
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: August 31, 2022
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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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.
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