Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering

by Myer Kutz (Editor)

Overview

Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering is the essential reference for engineers who need to understand those aspects of the food industry from farm machinery to food storage facilities to the machinery that processes and packages our foods. The process of getting food from "farm to fork," as the saying goes, involves more than planting, harvesting, shipping, processing, packaging and distributing—though those are all key components. Effective and efficient food delivery systems are built around processes that maximize the effort while minimizing cost, time, and resource depletion. This comprehensive reference is for engineers who design and build machinery and processing equipment, shipping containers, and packaging and storage equipment. It includes cutting-edge coverage of microwave vacuum application in grain processing, cacao processing, fruit and vegetable processing, ohmic heating of meat, facility design, closures for glass containers, double seaming, and much more. - Provides cross-topic information for translational research and potential application - Focuses on design and controls – written for engineers by engineers – always with practical applications in mind - Includes design of machinery and facilities as well as theoretical basis for determining and predicting behavior of foods as they are handled and processed

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123858825
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	06/10/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	760
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Myer Kutz has been heading his own firm, Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., since 1990. For the past two decades, he has focused on writing and developing engineering handbooks on a wide range of technical topics, such as mechanical, materials, biomedical, transportation, and environmentally conscious engineering. Earlier, his firm supplied consulting services to a large client roster, including Fortune 500 companies, scientific societies, and large and small publishers. He has been a trustee of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and chaired committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP). He is a long-time judge for the AAP's annual PROSE Awards, and holds engineering degrees from MIT and RPI, served as an officer in the US Army Ordnance Corp, and worked in the aerospace industry on the Apollo project. He is the author of nine books. He writes “The Scholarly Publishing Scene”, a column for the magazine Against the Grain. He lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife, Arlene.

Table of Contents

1. The Food Engineer
2. Food Regulations
3. Engineering Properties of Food Materials
4. Food Safety Engineering
5. Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation and Harvesting
6. Air Seeders for Conservation Tillage Crop Production
7. UAS Applications
8. Grain Harvesting Machinery
9. Grain Storage Systems Design
10. Milking Machines and Milking Parlors
11. Dairy Product Processing Equipment
12. Grain Process Engineering
13. Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops
14. Food Drying and Evaporation Processing Operations
15. Food Freezing Technology
16. Microwave Processing of Foods
17. Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing
18. Food Extruders
19. Food Extruders
20. Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation
21. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Process Modeling
22. Design of Food Process Controls Systems
23. Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products
24. Food Processing Facility Design
25. Sanitary Pump Selection and Use
26. Agricultural Waste Management in Food Processing
27. Food Packaging Machinery
28. Damage Reduction to Food Products During Transportation and Handling
29. Postharvest Traetments for Fresh Produce

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Broad, yet technically detailed coverage of food safety, regulations, product processing systems, packaging, facilities, waste management, and machinery design topics for "farm to the fork" delivery

Editorial Reviews

"This handbook by and for engineers begins with chapters on the food engineer, food regulations, and food safety engineering. Then it considers equipment for various aspects of farming, among them planting cultivation, grain harvesting, and milking. The rest of the book — over 500 pages — describes equipment and techniques for processing food as it moves from production to consumption." —Reference & Research Book News, December 2013

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