In order to successfully produce food products with maximum quality, each stage of processing must be well-designed. Unit Operations in Food Engineering systematically presents the basic information necessary to design food processes and the equipment needed to carry them out. It covers the most common food engineering unit operations in detail, in

Albert Ibarz, Gustavo V. Barbosa-Canovas

Introduction to Unit Operations. Unit Systems: Dimensional Analysis and Similarity. Introduction to Transport Phenomena. Molecular Transport of Momentum, Energy, and Mass. Air-Water Interaction. Rheology of Food Products. Fluid Transport in Pipes. Circulation of Fluids through Porous Beds. Filtration. Separation Processes by Membranes. Thermal Properties of Foods. Heat Transfer by Conduction. Heat Transfer by Convection. Heat Transfer by Radiation. Thermal Processing of Foods. Freeze Food Preservation. Dehydration. Evaporation. Distillation. Absorption. Liquid-Solid Extraction. Adsorption. References. Appendix. Index.