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Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing, volume 1 in the Woodhead Publishing Series, In Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, presents basic principles of food engineering with an emphasis on unit operations, such as heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid mechanics.

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Author:   Seid Mahdi Jafari (Professor, Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Woodhead Publishing
Weight:   1.360kg
ISBN:  

9780128184738

ISBN 10:   0128184736
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   24 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to unit operations and process description Section 1 Fundamentals of food process engineering 2. Units and dimensions 3. General mathematical and engineering principles 4. Physical properties of food materials 5. Thermodynamic properties of food materials 6. Mass and energy balances Section 2 Fluid mechanics and food rheology 7. Fluid mechanics 8. Rheological properties of food materials Section 3 Heat and mass transfer in food engineering 9. Conductive heat transfer 10. Convective heat transfer 11. Radiative heat transfer 12. Fundamentals of mass transfer 13. Psychrometry Section 4 Application of mathematics and statistical approaches in food engineering 14. Modeling and optimization 15. Reaction kinetics

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Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland in Australia in 2006. He is now a Professor at GUASNR (Iran). He has published more than 650 papers in international journals (h-index= 97 in Scopus), 100 book chapters, and 36 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Jafari was recognized as one of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (2017). He has been listed as one of the world’s highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He has also been recognized as a top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons (2018 and 2019). His website is “http://www.smjafari.com.”

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