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Utilities in the Food Factories

Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

  • 1st Edition - November 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Seid Mahdi Jafari, Katarzyna Samborska
  • Language: English

Utilities in the Food Factories: Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry ser… Read more

Description

Utilities in the Food Factories: Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for utilities within food production factories. These processes and unit operations are very important in terms of providing enough resources for production lines. The book's chapters analyze, in detail, the importance of food industry utilities, such as boilers, compressors, electricity generators, refrigeration systems, water and wastewater treatment facilities, cleaning in place (CIP), automation and control, fire extinguishing and emergency, Lightening, Aeration, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.

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. It will serve as a single reference summarizing the utilities in the industrial sector.

Key features

  • Explores the installation and application of different utilities within food factories
  • Covers different alternatives and new opportunities for utilities
  • Brings deep analysis of the importance of food industry utilities, such as electricity generators, refrigeration systems, water, and wastewater treatment facilities

Readership

technologists, researchers, investors, government officials, and all the people concerned with food processing operations. Undergraduate and graduate students in Food Science and Technology. This book could also be used as a reference for 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

1. Boilers

2. Compressors

3. Electricity generators

4. Water treatment facilities

5. Wastewater treatment facilities

6. Refrigeration systems

7. Cleaning-in-place (CIP) systems

8. Automation and control systems

9. Fire extinguishing and emergency systems

10. Lightening systems

11. Aeration, ventilation, and air conditioning

12. Clean room facilities

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

SJ

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

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