Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories: Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry

Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for storage and transportation of food materials within food production factories. Divided in 4 sections, Receiving and storage facilities, Liquid food transportation, Solid and semi- solid transportation and General material handling machines in food plants, all chapters emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational, and/or applications of food engineering principles and the relevant processing equipment. Written by experts in the field of food engineering, in a simple and dynamic way, this book targets all who are engaged in food processing operations worldwide, giving the readers a good knowledge and understanding of different transporting facilities and equipments. Thoroughly explores alternatives in food processing through innovative transporting operations Brings novel applications of pumping and conveying operations in food industries Covers how to improve the quality and safety of food products with good transporting operations INDICE: 1. Introduction to food materials handling within food factoriesSection 1: Receiving and storage facilities2. Storage vats, vessels, and tanks3. Pallets and bags4. Silos and binsSection 2: Liquid food transportation5. Fundamentals of pumping/piping6. Positive displacement pumps7. Centrifugal pumpsSection 3: Solid and semi- solid transportation8. Fundamentals of conveyors9. Different mechanical conveyors10. Pneumatic conveyors11. Hydraulic conveyors12. Bucket elevators and monorailsSection 4: General material handling machines in food plants13. Hand trucks, lift trucks, rich trucks14. Robotics

• ISBN: 978-0-12-818585-8
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés