Indispensable for food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging engineers, Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery covers in one comprehensive volume fundamental food engineering principles in the design of food industry machinery.

The handbook provides broad, yet technically detailed coverage of food safety, regulations, product processing systems, packaging, facilities, waste management, and machinery design topics in a “farm to the fork” organization.

The 22 chapters are contributed by leading experts worldwide with numerous illustrations, tables, and references. The book includes the new USDA regulations for “certified organic” processing, as well as state-of-the-art technologies for equipment both on the farm and in the plant.

Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Food Engineering

1. The Food Engineer
2. Food Regulations
3. Food Safety Engineering

Part 2: Farm Machinery Design

4. Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation, and Harvesting
5. Grain Harvesting Machinery
6. Grain Storage Systems Design
7. Milking Machinery Design

Part 3: Food Processing Operating Systems and Machinery Design

8. Dairy Product Processing
9. Grain Processing Engineering
10. Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops
11. Food Drying and Evaporation
12. Food Freezing Technology
13. Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing
14. Food Rheology
15. Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation
16. Food Process Modeling
17. Design of Food Processing Controls Systems
18. Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products
19. Food Processing Facility Design
20. Agricultural Waste Management in Food Processing

Part 4: Food Packaging Systems and Machinery Design

21. Food Packaging for Damage Reduction During Transportation and Handling
22. Food Packaging Machinery

Index

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