Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories
Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

Explores new opportunities in food processing through innovative transportation operations

Seid Mahdi Jafari (Edited by), Narjes Malekjani (Edited by)

9780128185858

Paperback, published 31 August 2022

398 pages, Approx. 100 illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.45 kg

Approx.382 pages

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

Subject Areas: Food & beverage technology [TDCT]