Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering / Edition 2

by Myer Kutz

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123858818
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/27/2013
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	760
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d)

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

The Food Engineer - Felix H. Barron and Stephen V. Harrill

Food Regulations - Kevin M. Keener

Food Safety Engineering - Raghupathy Ramaswamy, Juhee Ahn, V. M. Balasubramaniam, Luis Rodriguez Saona, and Ahmed E. Yousef

Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting Cultivation and Harvesting -Brian T. Adams

Air Seeders for Conservation Tillage Crop Production -John Nowatzki

Grain Harvesting Machinery -H. Mark Hanna and Graeme R. Quick

Grain Storage Systems Design -Ray Bucklin, Sid Thompson, Michael Montross and Ali Abdel-Hadi

Milking Machines and Milking Parlors -Douglas J. Reinemann

Dairy Product Processing Equipment -H. Doug Goff

Grain Processing Engineering -Imran Ahmad and Athapol Noomhorm

Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops - Conrad O Perera and Bronwen Smith

Food Drying and Evaporation Processing Operations -William L. Kerr

Food Freezing Technology -K. Muthukumarappan and Chenchaiah Marella

Heat and mass transfer in food processing -Mohammed Farid

Food Rheology -Qixin Zhong and Christopher R. Daubert

Food Extruders -Mian N. Riaz

Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation -Arthur A. Teixeira

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Process Modeling -Mittal

Design of Food Process Controls Systems -Mark T. Morgan and Timothy A. Haley

Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products -James Lyng and Brian M. McKenna

Food Processing Facility Design -Timothy J. Bowser

Sanitary pump selection/application-Timothy J. Bowser

Agricultural waste management in food processing -Conly L. Hansen and Dae Yeol Cheong

Food Packaging Machinery -Harold A. Hughes

Damage reduction of food products during transportation and handling -Jay Singh and S. Paul Singh

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From the Publisher

The essential reference for understanding the machinery of food production

Editorial Reviews

"This book includes an overview of food engineering, but also regulation and safety information, machinery design for the various stages of food production, from tillage to processing and packaging. Each chapter includes the state-of-the art in technology for each subject and illustrations, tables and references to guide the reader through key concepts. It is divided into 28 sections" —IFIS Publishing

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