Description
Advances in Food Engineering, the latest release in the Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering series, is a unique source of state-of-art information about scientific and technological advances in food engineering. The book gives specific understanding of the engineering properties of food materials such as the morphological, physic-chemical, nutritional, thermal and organoleptic characteristics of food products. It covers food processing and preservation methods such as pressure, light, electromagnetic, sound and heat based and also the use of artificial intelligence-based machineries, intelligent control systems, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain for food security traceability.- Reviews technological advancements in food engineering- Includes applications of emerging thermal, non-thermal and intelligent techniques/systems in the field of food processing, food supply chain and food analysis- Presents innovative approaches like artificial intelligence in food engineering- Provides comprehensive and integrated details in food processing/engineering/analysis while also helping users understand covered concepts
Table of Contents
Section I. Advanced analytical methods for estimating engineering properties of foods1. Structural analysis of food materials2. Rheological analysis of food materials3. Thermal analysis of food materials4. Chemical analysis of food materials5. Spectral analysis of food materialsSection II. Emerging food processing technologies: Effects on microbiological, enzyme and physico-chemical characteristics6. Pressure based processing technologies7. Light based processing technologies8. Sound based processing technologies9. Electric and magnetic field based processing technologies10. Heat based processing technologies11. Minimal processing methodsSection III. Intelligent food processing systems12. Machine learning techniques in food processing13. Industrial food processing control systems14. Computer vision and image processing methods in the food sector15. Internet of Things and blockchain in food supply chain management
