Food Process Engineering

Contents

Preface..................................................................................................................xv

Author................................................................................................................ xvii

1 Safety Assurance................................................................................................1

1.1 Preservation.......................................................................................................2

1.2 Blanching, pasteurization, and sterilization.....................................................76

1.3 Chilling...........................................................................................................122

1.4 Freezing/storage/thawing................................................................................139

1.5 Irradiation....................................................................................................... 185

2 Complementary Operations.............................................................................207

2.1 Handling, cleaning, disinfection, rinsing, and effluent treatment....................207

2.2 Packaging.........................................................................................................269

3 Industrial Utilities.............................................................................................. 331

3.1 Introduction....................................................................................................... 331

3.2 Product and process overview............................................................................338

3.3 Mathematical simulation....................................................................................355

4 Bibliography and Useful Mathematical Formulae...........................................457

4.1 Bibliographic references and further reading.....................................................457

4.2 Algebra................................................................................................................473

4.3 Calculus...............................................................................................................494

4.4 Statistics.............................................................................................................. 533

Index..........................................................................................................................541