Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for storage and transportation of food materials within food production factories. Divided into four sections, Receiving and storage facilities, Liquid food transportation, Solid and semi- solid transportation and General material handling machines in food plants, all sections emphasize basic content relating to experimental, theoretical, computational and/or applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment.
Written by experts in the field of food engineering in a simple and dynamic way, the book targets all who are engaged in worldwide food processing operations, giving readers comprehensive knowledge and an understanding of different transporting facilities and equipments.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to food materials handling within food factoriesSection 1: Receiving and storage facilities
2. Storage vats, vessels, and tanks
3. Pallets and bags
4. Silos and bins
Section 2: Liquid food transportation
5. Fundamentals of pumping/piping
6. Positive displacement pumps
7. Centrifugal pumps
Section 3: Solid and semi- solid transportation
8. Fundamentals of conveyors
9. Different mechanical conveyors
10. Pneumatic conveyors
11. Hydraulic conveyors
12. Bucket elevators and monorails
Section 4: General material handling machines in food plants
13. Hand trucks, lift trucks, rich trucks
14. Robotics
Authors
Seid Mahdi Jafari Associate Professor, Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Pardis, Basidj Square, Gorgan, Iran.Prof. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), in 2007. Now, he is a
full-time Prof. in GUASNR (Iran) and part-time Prof. in SAAS (China).
He has published more than 850 papers in International Journals (h-index=124
in Scopus and 136 in Google Scholar) and 110 book chapters/40 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Selected achievements:
- One of the world's highly cited researchers (1% top scientists) by Scopus (Elsevier)
- One of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology
- One of the world's highly cited researchers (HCR; 0.1% top scientists) by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science)
- A top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons.
Narjes Malekjani Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg , Germany. Narjes Malekjani received her Ph.D. in Food Engineering from the University of Tehran in Iran in 2017. She has been teaching courses related to principles of food process engineering and food plant design for more than 10 years. Now, she is an academic member of the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Guilan in Iran. She currently has worked on more than 20 papers in international Food Science Journals as well as more than 10 book chapters published by international publishers.
