This reference utilizes simplified computer strategies to analyze, develop, and optimize industrial food processes. It discusses the integration and economic evaluation of the entire processing plant, including effective use of water, energy, and raw materials; process profitability; and wastewater reduction. It also offers detailed numerical examples for major food processes including heating, cooling, evaporation, dehydration, and thermal processing.

Applying the proven success of modern process engineering economics to the food industry, Food Plant Economics considers the design and economic analysis of food preservation, food manufacturing, and food ingredients plants with regard to a number of representative food processes. Economic analysis of food plants requires the evaluation of quantitative data from the design and operation of food processes and processing plants. An accompanying CD-ROM includes prepared Excel spreadsheets for calculating various food plants scenarios by applying appropriate data regarding the cost of equipment...

A unique and interdisciplinary field, food processing must meet basic process engineering considerations such as material and energy balances, as well as the more specialized requirements of food acceptance, human nutrition, and food safety. Food engineering, therefore, is a field of major concern to university departments of food science, and chemical and biological engineering as well as engineers and scientists working in various food processing industries.

Part of the notable CRC Press Contemporary Food Engineering series, Food Process Engineering...