Thermal Processing of Food Products by Steam and Hot Water: Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

ISBN-13: 9780128186169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Seid Mahdi Jafari

Spis treści

Section 1: An overview of thermal food processing
1. Introduction to thermal food processes
2. Thermal food process calculations
3. Design and simulation of heat exchangers

Section 2: Heat exchangers in the food processing industry
4. Plate heat exchangers
5. Tubular heat exchangers
6. Shell and tube heat exchangers
7. Direct heat exchangers
8. Other heat exchangers

Section 3: Different thermal processing operations in the food industry
9. Blanching
10. Exhausting
11. Pasteurization
12. Sterilization

Section 4: Application of heat exchangers in the food industry
13. Heat exchangers in the dairy industry
14. Heat exchangers in the fruit juice industry
15. Heat exchangers in the beverages and sugar industry
16. Heat exchangers in the canneries

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).