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Spray Drying for the Food Industry

Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

  • 1st Edition - November 3, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Seid Mahdi Jafari, Katarzyna Samborska
  • Language: English

Spray Drying for the Food Industry, in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the fundamental and applied research in all aspects… Read more

Description

Spray Drying for the Food Industry, in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the fundamental and applied research in all aspects of spray drying from engineering to technology. The book thoroughly examines the spray drying of food materials with an emphasis on production, processing, engineering, characterization, and applications of spray dried food powders that enable novel/enhanced properties or functions. Divided into four sections, "Fundamentals of Spray drying process", "Application of spray drying for production of food powders", "Encapsulation of food bioactive ingredients by spray drying", and "Characterization and analysis of spray dried powders", all chapters emphasize the engineering, optimization and control of spray dryers and the relevant processing equipment. 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 drying unit operations. 

Key features

  • Thoroughly explores novel applications of spray drying unit operations in food industries
  • Helps readers improve the formulation of food powders with natural ingredients
  • Promotes better control of spray drying with simulation and modeling tools

Readership

Technologists, researchers, investors, government officials, and all the people concerned with food processing operations, Undergraduate and graduate students in Food Science and Technology, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, and 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

Table of contents

Section 1: Fundamentals of Spray drying process

1. Introduction to spray drying process

2. Simulation and design of spray driers

3. Optimization of the spray drying process
Section 2: Application of spray drying for production of food powders

4. Spray drying of milk and milk products

5. Spray drying of dairy and soy proteins

6. Spray drying of sugar-rich food products

7. Spray drying of coffee

8. Spray drying of egg components

9. Spray drying of starches and gums
Section 3: Application of spray drying for encapsulation of food ingredients

10. Spray drying encapsulation of flavors and essential oils

11. Spray drying encapsulation of natural food colorants

12. Spray drying encapsulation of phenolic compounds and antioxidants

13. Spray drying encapsulation of minerals and vitamins

14. Spray drying encapsulation of probiotics and enzymes

15. Encapsulation efficiency of food bioactive ingredients during spray drying

16. Nanoencapsulation of food ingredients by nano spray dryer
Section 4: Characterization and Storage of spray dried powders

17. Physical properties and stickiness of spray dried food powders

18. Packaging and storage of spray dried food powders

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 7, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

SJ

Seid Mahdi Jafari

Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland in Australia in 2006. He is now a Professor at GUASNR (Iran). He has published more than 550 papers in international journals (h-index= 86 in Scopus), 100 book chapters, and 36 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Jafari was recognized as one of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (2017). He has been listed as one of the world’s highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He has also been recognized as a top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons (2018 and 2019). His website is “http://www.smjafari.com”.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

KS

Katarzyna Samborska

Katarzyna Samborska received her PhD in Food Technology (2004) from Warsaw University of Live Sciences in Poland. In 2003-2004 she was a Marie Curie scholar at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. She has been working on spray drying of sugar-rich foods and enzymes for the past 20 years. She has published more than 80 papers in top-ranked international food science journals (h-index=28 in Scopus), is the main author of two patents related to the production of honey powder, and was the co-editor of a special issue in Drying Technology devoted to spray drying for the retention of food bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals. She is one of the world's highly cited researchers (2% top scientists) by Clarivate Analytics (2024, 2025).

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Institute of Food Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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