Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Food and Dairy Production, Gebunden

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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of food and dairy process engineering, catering to a diverse audience ranging from students and budding engineers to seasoned professionals in the food industry. It delves into a wide array of crucial topics, each meticulously crafted to provide valuable insights into the complex world of food and dairy processing.

Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Food and Dairy Production begins by addressing the paramount concern of safety in the food industry, tackling challenges and opportunities in ensuring the quality and integrity of food products. The book promotes an understanding of the sources of dairy products and the practices involved in dairy farming, which are pivotal for producing high-quality dairy goods. Raw material management and quality control techniques are covered in full, as are fluid mechanics and heat transfer and pasteurization techniques. Fermentation processes are explored in-depth, showcasing their significance in the creation of various food products. Separation technologies such as filtration and centrifugation techniques are studied and evaporation and concentration techniques are discussed which enables the production of condensed and powdered items. A full chapter is dedicated to food and dairy freezing and cooling techniques, focusing on maintaining the correct temperature and various freezing and cooling methods. For researchers in search of the most updated technologies and techniques for sustainable food and dairy processing, this text functions as a singular source.