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Low-Temperature Processing of Food Products

Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

  • 1st Edition - March 30, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Seid Mahdi Jafari, Hadis Rostamabadi
  • Language: English

Low-Temperature Processing of Food Products, Volume Seven in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations an… Read more

Description

Low-Temperature Processing of Food Products, Volume Seven in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for low-temperature processing of different food products. These processes are very important for achieving favorable sensory properties and energy usage. Divided in four sections, “Basics of low-temperature processing “, “Different types of cooling and freezing systems”, “Application of freezing in the food industry”, and “Design, control and efficiency of freezers”, all chapters emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational, and/or applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment to low-temperature unit operations.

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 low-temperature unit operations in food industries
  • Brings innovative freezing technologies
  • Clarifies phase change of water, freezing processes, mass and heat transfer phenomena

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: Basics of low-temperature processing

1. Fundamentals of chilling/cooling processes

2. Fundamentals of freezing processes

3. Elements of a low temperature processing system

Section 2: Different types of cooling and freezing systems

4. Refrigerators and cooling rooms

5. Still freezing in air 6. Air blast or forced air freezers

7. Single or double contact freezers

8. Spray freezers

9. Direct or indirect immersion freezers

Section 3: Application of freezing in the food industry

10. Freezing of fruits and vegetables

11. Freezing of meat, poultry and sea foods

12. Freezing of baked goods and prepared foods

Section 4: Design, control and efficiency of freezers

13. Design and simulation of freezing processes

14. Different parameters affecting the efficiency of freezers

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 5, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

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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.

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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Hadis Rostamabadi

Dr. Hadis Rostamabadi received her PhD in Food Science and Technology, in 2020. She has been working on designing bioactive delivery systems for more than 6 years. In 2020, she was awarded as one of the top national researchers by Iran National Elites Foundation (INEF). Now, as an Assistant Professor, she is an academic member of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), IRAN. Moreover, she is the editor of “Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry” book, which is going to be published by Elsevier.
Affiliations and expertise
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) Iran

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