This comprehensive handbook offers a definitive reference for engineers who design and build farm machinery, food processing equipment, shipping containers and packaging, and storage equipment. It provides broad, yet technically detailed coverage of these topics, as well as food safety, regulations, waste management, organic certification, and more. The book is divided into four sections, including an overview; design parameters for farm equipment; an extensive discussion of food processing systems and equipment; and food packaging operations.

From the Preface: “...While some chapters deal with the design of farm and food processing machinery and facilities, other chapters provide the theoretical basis for determining and predicting the behavior of foods as they are handled and processed. In order for the handbook to be useful to engineers, coverage of each topic is comprehensive enough to serve as an overview of the most recent and relevant research and technology. Numerous references are included at the ends of most chapters...”

Target Audience: Chemical, mechanical, design, and packaging engineers involved in the food industry; students of food science and engineering.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Food Engineering:

The Food Engineer

Food Regulations

Food Safety Engineering

Farm Machinery Design:

Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation, and Harvesting

Grain Harvesting Machinery Design

Grain Storage Systems Design

Milking Machines and Milking Parlors

Food Processing Operating Systems and Machinery Design:

Dairy Product Processing Equipment

Grain Processing Equipment

Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops

Food Drying and Evaporation Processing Operations

Food Freezing Technology

Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing

Food Rheology

Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation

Food Process Modeling, Simulation and Optimization

Design of Food Process Controls Systems

Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products

Food Processing Facility Design

Agricultural Waste Management in Food Processing

Food Packaging Systems and Machinery Design:

Damage Reduction to Food Products During Transportation and Handling

Food Packaging Machinery

Index