Handbook of Agricultural and Farm Machinery, Third Edition, is the essential reference for understanding the food industry, from farm machinery, to dairy processing, food storage facilities and the machinery that processes and packages foods. Effective and efficient food delivery systems are built around processes that maximize efforts while minimizing cost and time. This comprehensive reference is for engineers who design and build machinery and processing equipment, shipping containers, and packaging and storage equipment. It includes coverage of microwave vacuum applications in grain processing, cacao processing, fruit and vegetable processing, ohmic heating of meat, facility design, closures for glass containers, double seaming, and more. The book's chapters include an excellent overview of food engineering, but also regulation and safety information, machinery design for the various stages of food production, from tillage, to processing and packaging. Each chapter includes the state-of-the art in technology for each subject and numerous illustrations, tables and references to guide the reader through key concepts. - Describes the latest breakthroughs in food production machinery - Features new chapters on engineering properties of food materials, UAS applications, and microwave processing of foods - Provides efficient access to fundamental information and presents real-world applications - Includes design of machinery and facilities as well as theoretical bases for determining and predicting behavior of foods as they are handled and processed

Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering is the essential reference for engineers who need to understand those aspects of the food industry from farm machinery to food storage facilities to the machinery that processes and packages our foods.

This fourth edition of this successful textbook succinctly presents the engineering concepts and unit operations used in food processing, in a unique blend of principles with applications. Depth of coverage is very high. The authors use their many years of teaching to present food engineering concepts in a logical progression that covers the standard course curriculum. Both are specialists in engineering and world-renowned. Chapters describe the application of a particular principle followed by the quantitative relationships that define the related processes, solved examples and problems to test understanding. - Supplemental processes including filtration, sedimentation, centrifugation, and mixing - Extrusion processes for foods - Packaging concepts and shelf life of foods - Expanded information on Emerging technologies, such as high pressure and pulsed electric field; Transport of granular foods and powders; Process controls and measurements; Design of plate heat exchangers; Impact of fouling in heat transfer processes; Use of dimensional analysis in understanding physical phenomena

The procedures of employing mechanical resources to agricultural operations are originally focused on the intention of supplying plenty of food for the farm family, the village, the region and the country. In convincing this idea, farm machines that assist bring more land into production; more water to dry-season production, offer for accommodation of intensively-managed crops etc. are typically given priority. Once food sufficiency has been achieved, the focus of farm machinery tends to become the development of the efficiency of food production. In this perspective technologies that reduce costs, save on scarce resources, meet market demand for high-value products, reduce environmental stresses, etc. are commonly found to receive particular attention. Looking towards the future to a point in time when humans are removed from field machinery, there are several emerging technologies that will be essential for autonomous operation. Advancements in sensing, communication and control technologies coupled with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are aiding the progression of farm machines from the simple, mechanical machines of yesterday to the intelligent, autonomous vehicles of the future. Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery presents up-to-date information on fundamental food engineering doctrine in the design of food industry machinery. It provides wide ranging, theoretical and practical detailed coverage of food safety, product processing systems, packaging, waste management, and machinery design topics in a farm to the organization. The purpose of this work is to examine a number of controlling factors relating to the removal of man as a control element in agricultural field production systems. Many forces external to the industry will shape how automation develops and is adopted by producers. This book will be of valuable to Food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging engineers involved with the food industry.

This handbook is a comprehensive reference for engineers who design and build farm machinery, processing equipment, shipping containers and packaging, as well as storage equipment. The book is written by the world’s leading engineers and gives both a broad and technically detailed look at these critical aspects of any farm-to-fork operation. It addresses food, chemical, mechanical, and packaging engineers directly or indirectly involved with the food industry.

Engineering Principles of Unit Operations in Food Processing, volume 1 in the Woodhead Publishing Series, In Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, presents basic principles of food engineering with an emphasis on unit operations, such as heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid mechanics. - Brings new opportunities in the optimization of food processing operations - Thoroughly explores applications of food engineering to food processes - Focuses on unit operations from an engineering viewpoint