Chemical Engineering for the Food Industry

by Peter J. Fryer, D. Leo Pyle, Chris D. Reilly

Industrial food processing involves the production of added value foods on a large scale; these foods are made by mixing and processing different ingredients in a prescribed way. The food industry, historically, has not designed its processes in an engineering sense, i.e. by understanding the physical and chemical principles which govern the operation of the plant and then using those principles to develop a process. Rather, processes have been 'designed'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461367247
• ISBN13: 9781461367246
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"