This book offers a comprehensive exploration of food and dairy process engineering, catering to a diverse audience ranging from students and budding engineers to seasoned professionals in the food industry. It delves into a wide array of crucial topics, each meticulously crafted to provide valuable insights into the complex world of food and dairy processing.
Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Food and Dairy Production begins by addressing the paramount concern of safety in the food industry, tackling challenges and opportunities in ensuring the quality and integrity of food products. The book promotes an understanding of the sources of dairy products and the practices involved in dairy farming, which are pivotal for producing high-quality dairy goods. Raw material management and quality control techniques are covered in full, as are fluid mechanics and heat transfer and pasteurization techniques. Fermentation processes are explored in-depth, showcasing their significance in the creation of various food products. Separation technologies such as filtration and centrifugation techniques are studied and evaporation and concentration techniques are discussed which enables the production of condensed and powdered items. A full chapter is dedicated to food and dairy freezing and cooling techniques, focusing on maintaining the correct temperature and various freezing and cooling methods. For researchers in search of the most updated technologies and techniques for sustainable food and dairy processing, this text functions as a singular source
Dr. Sankar Chandra Deka is a Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University in Assam, India. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided more than 17 PhD students and about 60 students for their BTech, MSc, and M Tech degrees. Professor Deka has successfully handled more than 17 research projects funded by various funding agencies. He has published more than 150 research papers in journals of national and international repute and about 30 book chapters. His area of interest is food technology and food processing.
Dr. Nickhil C. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University in Assam, India. With over 4 years of teaching and research experience, he has been involved in supervising many B.Tech, M.Tech, and Ph.D. students. Dr. Nickhil is currently leading several innovative research projects funded by DST-SERB, DST-SHRI, and ASTEC, Assam. He has published extensively, with contributions to more than 35 research papers in high-impact journals and several book chapters. His primary areas of interest are food process engineering, grain storage, and fruit and vegetable processing.
Dr. A. K. Haghi is a Professor Emeritus of Engineering at University of Guilan and has published 250+ academic research-oriented books and 1000+ research papers in various journals and conference proceedings. His leadership in academic publishing includes founding and serving as Editor-in-Chief of prestigious journals. Professor Haghi’s extensive educational background and supervisory roles underscore his expertise and contributions to the field of engineering sciences. He is appointed as Honorary Research Associate (HRA) at University of Coimbra, Portugal.
