Textbook of Dairy Engineering

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Materials used and sanitary features of dairy equipment. 2. Sanitary pipes and fittings, standard glass piping, plastic tubing and gaskets. 3. Milk storage tanks, silos, road and rail tankers. 4. Can washing, bottle washing and CIP systems. 5. Separation equipment. 6. Centrifugal separation equipment. 7. Homogenization. 8. Pasteurizers. 9. Sterilization equipment. 10. UHT processing equipment. 11. Filling equipment. 12. Mixing and agitation equipment. 13. Evaporation. 14. Multiple effect evaporators. 15. Auxillary equipment for evaporators. 16. Principles of drying. 17. Classification of dryers. 18. Spray drying. 19. Theory of solid-gas separation. 20. Butter making machines. 21. Mechanization of Indian dairy products manufacture. 22. Ice cream making equipment. 23. Cheese making equipment. 24. Membrane processing. 25. Applications of membrane processes. Annexures. Index. The subject of Dairy Engineering being taught for the under graduate students of Dairy Technology, is a unique combination of both basic and applied engineering subjects. This text book gives the fundamentals along with the latest development in the dairy equipment manufacture and with diagrams that explicitly display the inner workings, well labelled, and meet the requirement of an introductory text book of dairy engineering. The focus had been on explaining the principles and design requirement of dairy equipment that are commonly used in establish dairy industries as well as in small-scale dairy manufacture establishments of indigenous dairy products.