Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery

ISBN-13: 9781402059131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 732 str.

Myer Kutz

Opis

The food industry, which includes farming and food production, packaging and distri- tion, and retail and catering, is enormous. states that in the United States, consumers spend approximately US$1 trillion annually for food, or nearly of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Over 16. 5 million people are employed in the food industry. In 2004, processed food sales worldwide were approximately US$3. 2 trillion. According to Reuters, "food processing is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United States, accounting for approximately of all manufacturing shipments (by value). The processed food industry has grown by over between 1998 and 2004, and in 2004, the value of processed food shipments was approximately $470 billion. The largest sectors of the industry, in terms of value, are meat, dairy, fruit and vegetable preservation, and specialty foods. Other niche sectors include bakeries and tortilla manufacturing, grain and oilseed milling, sugar and confectionery, animal food manufacturing, and seafood products. " The size of the machinery component of the food processing industry is hardly static, and it is an area where engineers can have a major effect. The U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, states: "Fierce competition has led food manufacturing plants to invest in technologically advanced machinery to be more productive. The new machines have been applied to tasks as varied as packaging, inspection, and inventory control . . . . Computers also are being widely implemented throughout the industry . . . .

Spis treści

Contributors; Preface Part 1: Introduction to Food Engineering 1. The Food Engineer, Felix H. Barron 2. Food Regulations, Kevin M. Keener 3. Food Safety Engineering V.M. Balasubramanian, Raghupathy Ramaswany, Juhee Ahn, Luis Rodriguez Saona, Ahmed E. Yousef Part 2: Farm Machinery Design 4. Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation, and Harvesting, Brian T. Adams 5. Grain Harvesting Machinery, H. Mark Hanna, Graeme R. Quick, - Iowa State University 6. Grain Storage Systems Design, Ray Allen Bucklin, Sidney Thompson, Ali Abdel-Hadi, Michael Montross 7. Milking Machinery Design, Douglas J. Reinemann Part 3: Food Processing Operating Systems and Machinery Design 8. Dairy Product Processing, H. Doug Goff 9. Grain Processing Engineering, Athapol Noomhorm, Imran Ahmad 10. Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops, Conrad O. Perera, Brownen Smith 11. Food Drying and Evaporation, William L. Kerr 12. Food Freezing Technology, Kasiviswanathan Muthumkumarappan, Chenchaiah 13. Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing, Mohammed Mehdi Farid 14. Food Rheology,Qixin Zhong 15. Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation, Arthur A. Teixeira 16. Food Process Modeling, Gauri Shankar Mittal 17. Design of Food Processing Controls Systems, Mark T. Morgan, Timothy A. Haley 18. Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products, Brian T. McKenna, James 19. Food Processing Facility Design, Timothy J. Bowser 20. Agricultural Waste Management in Food Processing, Conly Hansen, Dae-Yeol Cheong Part 4: Food Packaging Systems and Machinery Design 21. Food Packaging for Damage Reduction During Transportation and Handling, Jay Singh, Paul Singh 22. Food Packaging Machinery, Harold A. Hughes - Michigan State University Index

O autorze

Myer Kutz is an independent publishing and information services consultant whose clients include universities, publishers, secondary information services, and Fortune 500 companies. He served as vice president of scientific and technical publishing at John Wiley & Sons. He has written eight books and edited a number of handbooks, including the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook (Wiley, 3rd edition), the Handbook of Transportation Engineering, the Handbook of Materials Selection, the Handbook of Environmental Degradation of Materials, and the Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering and Design, which received the 2003 Best Engineering Book award from the Association of American Publishers.