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Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing
Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

Provides a basic understanding of fundamental engineering principles for non-engineering experts working in food processing

Seid Mahdi Jafari (Edited by)

9780128184738

Paperback, published 24 June 2021

498 pages, Approx. 100 illustrations
27.6 x 21.5 x 3.1 cm, 1.36 kg

Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing, volume 1 in the Woodhead Publishing Series, In Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, presents basic principles of food engineering with an emphasis on unit operations, such as heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid mechanics.

1. Introduction to unit operations and process description

Section 1 Fundamentals of food process engineering 2. Units and dimensions 3. General mathematical and engineering principles 4. Physical properties of food materials 5. Thermodynamic properties of food materials 6. Mass and energy balances

Section 2 Fluid mechanics and food rheology 7. Fluid mechanics 8. Rheological properties of food materials

Section 3 Heat and mass transfer in food engineering 9. Conductive heat transfer 10. Convective heat transfer 11. Radiative heat transfer 12. Fundamentals of mass transfer 13. Psychrometry

Section 4 Application of mathematics and statistical approaches in food engineering 14. Modeling and optimization 15. Reaction kinetics

Subject Areas: Food & beverage technology [TDCT]

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