Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories
Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry
- 1st Edition - August 31, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Seid Mahdi Jafari, Narjes Malekjani
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 5 8 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 7 0 5 - 9
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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.
- 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
Food engineers, undergraduate and graduate students in Food Science and Technology, and also, for technologists, researchers, and anyone concerned with food processing operations
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 31, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- 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.
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, IranNM
Narjes Malekjani
Narjes Malekjani received her Ph.D. in Food Engineering from the University of Tehran in Iran in 2017. She has been teaching courses related to principles of food process engineering and food plant design for more than 10 years. Now, she is an academic member of the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Guilan in Iran. She currently has worked on more than 20 papers in international Food Science Journals as well as more than 10 book chapters published by international publishers.
Affiliations and expertise
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg , GermanyRead Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories on ScienceDirect