Non-Thermal Food Processing Operations: Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

ISBN-13: 9780128187173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Seid Mahdi Jafari

Spis treści

1. Introduction to non-thermal food processes

Section 1-Ozonation operations

2. Principles of ozonation and its equipment

3. Application of ozonation in the food industry

Section 2-Plasma processing operations

4. Principles of Plasma Processing and Its Equipment

5. Application of Plasma processing in the food industry

Section 3-Irradiation operations

6. Principles of irradiation and its equipment

7. Application of irradiation in the food industry

Section 4-Pulsed electric fields processing operations

8. Application of pulsed electric field processing in the food industry

Section 5-High pressure processing operations

9. Principles of high pressure processing and its equipment

10. Application of high pressure processing in ensuring the food safety

11. Application of high pressure processing in freezing and thawing processes

Section 6-Radio frequency processing operations

12. Principles of ultraviolet processing and its equipment and application

Sonication operations

13. Principles of sonication and its equipment in the food industry

14. Application of sonication 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) and Adjunct Prof. in UVigo (Spain). He has published more than 320 papers in top-ranked International Food Science Journals and 60 book chapters along with editing 36 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis.
In 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% world scientists by Thomson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences. In 2017, he was selected as one of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology. He has been awarded as one of the world's highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and a top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons (2018 and 2019). Nantawan Therdthai received her PhD in food science and technology from the University of Western Sydney in Australia. She is currently a department head at the Department of Product Development, Kasetsart University in Thailand. She has published over 30 papers in international journals and 13 book chapters. She is considered as one of the top national researchers in the area of Food Science and Technology.