Food Process Engineering and Technology
Abstract
About the book
The first edition of “Food Process Engineering and Technology” written by Akash Pare and Mandhyan is a great book to enlighten the basic concepts of post harvest and food process engineering. This book address systematically the issues related to various process and unit operations involved in agro process and food industries. All the concepts are explained in depth with the help of diagrams and illustrated solved problems. This book is divided into 12 chapters depicting principles of material and energy balances, heat transfer and its applications, thermal processing, psychrometry, drying and dehydration, evaporation, refrigeration and freezing, separation process and milk processing have been dealt in details. Apart from basic theory and design principles a number of solved examples have been included to solve design problems. This book, written in simple language and providing in depth knowledge about the subject. The authors also provide an index with more than 300 keywords with cross-references to help the reader navigate through the topics. This book represents an attempt to deal with special subject in food engineering in a comprehensive way for students of B. Tech (Agril. Engg) and Post graduation programmes of different colleges and universities and persons appearing in various competitive examinations related to entrance test for higher studies such as NET, GATE, ARS and IES. That said, this book succeeds adequately as a gentle introduction to basic food engineering. Concepts are explained with concrete examples, and provide an intuitive understanding. It is useful reference for designer, manufactures of agro processing machines, teachers and students of food processing. This book has been published by New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi with price tag of Rupees 1150/- only.
