Improving the Thermal Processing of Foods covers the subjects of improving particular techniques and measuring their effectiveness in preserving food and enhancing its quality.

Improving the Thermal Processing of Foods includes:

• retort processing and temperature control
• rotary thermal processing
• plate and tubular heat exchangers
• aseptic processing
• ohmic and air impingement heating
• optimization and validation of heat processes
• dealing with heat-resistant bacteria
• modelling heat penetration...and more

Contents

Part I: Optimising thermal processes

1. Optimising the safety and quality of thermally processed packaged foods
2. Optimising the efficiency and productivity of thermal processing
3. Optimising the efficiency of batch processing with retort systems in thermal processing
4. Using computational fluid dynamics to optimise thermal processes

Part II: Developments in technologies for sterilisation and pasteurisation

5. Modelling and optimising retort temperature control
6. Improving rotary thermal processing
7. Devlopments in packaging formats for retort processing
8. Devlopments in cook-chill and sous vide processing

Part III: Developments in continuous heat processing

9. Developments in aseptic processing
10. Developments in tubular heat exchangers
11. Optimising plate heat exchanger design and operation
12. Developments in ohmic heating
13. Air impingement heating
14. Laser-based packaging sterilisation in aseptic processing

Part IV: Improving validation of thermal processes

15. Modelling heat prentration curves in thermal processes
16. Vallidation of heat processes
17. The use of data loggers to validate thermal processes
18. The use of time-tempreature integrators (TTIs) to validate thermal processes
19. New techniques for measuring and validating thermal processes

Part V: Analysing microbial inactivation in thermal processing

20. Analyzing the effectiveness of microbial inactivation in thermal processing
21. Evaluating microbial inactivation models for thermal processing
22. Identifying and dealing with heat-resistant bacteria

Appendix

Optimising the thermal processing of liquids containing solid particulates

Index

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