Introduction to Food Engineering

R. Paul Singh is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Food Engineering at the University of California, Davis. The American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) awarded him the Young Educator Award in 1986, the Kishida International Award in 2007, and the Massey Ferguson Education Gold Medal Award in 2013. In 2007, Singh was recognized with a Food Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Association of Engineering and Food.In 2008, Singh was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering “for innovation and leadership in food engineering research and education.” Dennis R. Heldman is the Dale A. Seiberling Endowed Professor of Food Engineering at Ohio State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of California-Davis and Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri. He has been author or co-author of over 150 research projects and several books. He served as President of the Institute of Food Technologists in 2006-07, and was recognized with the Food Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Engineering and Food in 2011. Ferruh Erdogdu is currently Professor of Food Process Engineering at Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogdu is a member of the ISEKI Academy and professional member of IFT. He is co-author of Virtual Experiments in Food Processing with Dr. Paul Singh, editor of the Optimization in Food Engineering, and author or co-author of more than 100 research papers.

1. Introduction 2. Fluid Flow in Food Processing 3. Resource Sustainability 4. Heat Transfer in Food Processing 5. Preservation Processes 6. Refrigeration 7. Food Freezing 8. Evaporation 9. Psychrometrics 10. Mass Transfer 11. Membrane Separation 12. Dehydration 13. Supplemental Processes 14. Extrusion Processes for Foods 15. Packaging Concepts 16. Cleaning and Sanitation Operations