Emerging Thermal Processes in the Food Industry: Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

ISBN-13: 9780128221075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Seid Mahdi Jafari

Spis treści

1. Introduction to emerging thermal food processes

Section 1: Infrared processing operations
2. Principles of infrared processing
3. Infrared processing equipment
4. Application of infrared processing in the food industry

Section 2: Microwave processing operations
5. Principles of microwave heating
6. Microwave heating equipment
7. Application of microwave processing in the food industry

Section 3: Ohmic heating operations
8. Principles of Ohmic heating
9. Ohmic heating equipment
10. Application of Ohmic heating in the food industry

Section 4: Radiofrequency (RF) processing operations
11. Principles of RF processing
12. RF processing equipment
13. Application of RF processing in the food industry

O autorze

Prof. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), in 2006. He has been working on the nanoemulsification and nanoencapsulation of food bioactive ingredients for the past 15 years. Now, as a full Professor, he is an academic member of GUASNR (Iran). He has published more than 150 papers in top-ranked International Food Science Journals (h-index=35 in Scopus) and 30 book chapters along with editing 11 books with Elsevier. In November 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% world scientists with the highest citations by Thomson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences. Also in December 2017, he was selected as one of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology. Recently in November 2018, he was awarded as one of the world highly cited researchers in cross-field by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science).