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HANDBOOK OF FARM, DAIRY, AND FOOD MACHINERY
Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery
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By
Myer Kutz, Myer Kutz Associates. Inc., Delmar, NY, USA

Description
Indispensable for food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging engineers, Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery covers in one comprehensive volume fundamental food engineering principles in the design of food industry machinery. The handbook provides broad, yet technically detailed coverage of food safety, regulations, product processing systems, packaging, facilities, waste management, and machinery design topics in a ofarm to the forko organization. The 22 chapters are contributed by leading experts worldwide with numerous illustrations, tables, and references. The book includes the new USDA regulations for ocertified organico processing, as well as state-of-the-art technologies for equipment both on the farm and in the plant.

Audience
Food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging engineers directly or indirectly involved with the food industry.

Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Food Engineering 1. The Food Engineer Felix H. Barron - Clemson University 2. Food Regulations Kevin M. Keener - Purdue University 3. Food Safety Engineering V.M. Balasubramanian, Raghupathy Ramaswany, Juhee Ahn, Luis Rodriguez Saona, Ahmed E. Yousef - The Ohio State University Part 2: Farm Machinery Design 4. Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation, and Harvesting Brian T. Adams 5. Grain Harvesting Machinery H. Mark Hanna, Graeme R. Quick, - Iowa State University 6. Grain Storage Systems Design Ray Allen Bucklin, Sidney Thompson, Ali Abdel-Hadi, Michael Montross - University of Florida 7. Milking Machinery Design Douglas J. Reinemann - University of Wisconsin Part 3: Food Processing Operating Systems and Machinery Design 8. Dairy Product Processing H. Doug Goff - University of Guelph 9. Grain Processing Engineering Athapol Noomhorm, Imran Ahmad - Asian Institute of Technology 10. Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops Conrad O. Perera, Brownen Smith 11. Food Drying and Evaporation William L. Kerr - University of Georgia 12. Food Freezing Technology Kasiviswanathan Muthumkumarappan, Chenchaiah Marella - South Dakota State University 13. Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing Mohammed Mehdi Farid - University of Auckland 14. Food Rheology Qixin Zhong - University of Tennessee 15. Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation Arthur A. Teixeira - University of Florida 16. Food Process Modeling Gauri Shankar Mittal - University of Guelph 17. Design of Food Processing Controls Systems Mark T. Morgan, Timothy A. Haley - Purdue University 18. Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products Brian T. McKenna, James Lyng - University College Dublin 19. Food Processing Facility Design Timothy J. Bowser - Oklahoma State University 20. Agricultural Waste Management in Food Processing Conly Hansen, Dae-Yeol Cheong - Utah State University Part 4: Food Packaging Systems and Machinery Design 21. Food Packaging for Damage Reduction During Transportation and Handling Jay Singh, Paul Singh - California State Polytechnic University 22. Food Packaging Machinery Harold A. Hughes - Michigan State University

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 756 pages, publication date: FEB-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-8155-1538-8
ISBN-10: 0-8155-1538-3
Imprint: WILLIAM ANDREW

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