Innovative Food Processing Technologies demonstrates process efficiency and the impact on scalability, safety, and quality, and technologies including High Pressure Processing, High Pressure Thermal Sterilization, Radiofrequency, Ultrasound, Ultraviolet, and Pulsed Electric Fields Processing.

This book covers the importance and the methods for applying multiphysics modeling for the design, development, and application of these technologies.

Contents

1. Introduction to Innovative Food Processing Technologies: Background, Advantages, Issues and Need for Multiphysics Modeling
2. The Need for Thermophysical Properties in Simulating Emerging Food Processing Technologies
3. Neural Networks: Their Role in High Pressure Processing
4. Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in High Pressure Processing Scale Up
5. Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in High Pressure High Temperature Processes: Spore Inactivation Distribution and Process Optimization
6. Computer Simulation for Microwave Heating
7. Simulating and Measuring Transient Three-Dimensional Temperature Distributions in Microwave Processing
8. Multiphysics Modeling of Ohmic Heating
9. Basics for Modeling of Pulsed Electric Field Processing of Foods
10. Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in Pulsed Electric Field Preservation of Liquid Foods
11. Novel, Multi-objective Optimization of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) Processing for Liquid Food Treatment
12. Multiphysics Modeling Applied to Ultrasonic Food Processing: Review and New Approaches to Model the Acoustic Field and the Acoustic Streaming Induced by an Ultrasonic Horn Sonoreactor
13. Computational Study of Ultrasound-Assisted Drying of Food Materials
14. Characterization and Simulation of Ultraviolet Processing of Liquid Foods Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
15. Multiphysics Modeling of Ultraviolet Disinfection of Liquid Food - Performance Evaluation using a Concept of Disinfection Efficiency
16. Continuous Chromatographic Separation Technology – Modeling and Simulation
17. The Future of Multiphysics Modeling of Innovative Food Processing Technologies

Index

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