Non-thermal Food Processing Operations. Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to non-thermal food processes

Section 1-Ozonation operations

2. Principles of ozonation and its equipment

3. Application of ozonation in the food industry

Section 2-Plasma processing operations

4. Principles of Plasma Processing and Its Equipment

5. Application of Plasma processing in the food industry

Section 3-Irradiation operations

6. Principles of irradiation and its equipment

7. Application of irradiation in the food industry

Section 4-Pulsed electric fields processing operations

8. Application of pulsed electric field processing in the food industry

Section 5-High pressure processing operations

9. Principles of high pressure processing and its equipment

10. Application of high pressure processing in ensuring the food safety

11. Application of high pressure processing in freezing and thawing processes

Section 6-Radio frequency processing operations

12. Principles of ultraviolet processing and its equipment and application

Sonication operations

13. Principles of sonication and its equipment in the food industry

14. Application of sonication in the food industry

Authors

Seid Mahdi Jafari Professor, Department of Food Materials and Process Design Engineering, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland in Australia in 2006. He is now a Professor at GUASNR (Iran). He has published more than 650 papers in international journals (h-index= 97 in Scopus), 100 book chapters, and 36 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Jafari was recognized as one of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (2017). He has been listed as one of the world's highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He has also been recognized as a top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons (2018 and 2019). His website is "http://www.smjafari.com.� Nantawan Therdthai Department of Product Development, Faculty of Agro-Industry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. Nantawan Therdthai received her PhD in food science and technology from the University of Western Sydney in Australia. She is currently a department head at the Department of Product Development, Kasetsart University in Thailand. She has published over 30 papers in international journals and 13 book chapters. She is considered as one of the top national researchers in the area of Food Science and Technology.