The food industry is on the verge of making some serious advances in the food processing sector. If successful, tomorrow's consumers will have unhindered access to safe, nutritious, and high-quality products via novel food processing technologies. Food Processing Operations Modeling: Design and Analysis, Second Edition demonstrates how to effectively use numerical modeling to predict the effects of food processing on targeted components. This non-destructive testing method virtually eliminates the health risks of under-processed food and maintains high nutritional values that are often lost in overcooked food. Using a task-oriented approach, this second edition discusses basic and advanced modeling tools that allow researchers to predict and prevent worse-case scenarios, perform comprehensive analyses, and optimize system design and efficiency. Contains Selected Applications of Thermal and Non-Thermal Processing Operations NEW TO THIS EDITION: Six new chapters on radio frequency heating, high-pressure processing, pulsed electric field treatment, fouling model on heat exchangers, ozone treatment, and UV radiation Expanded scope to address innovative and up-to-date food processing technologies Numerous real-world case studies Updated information on infrared heating of biological materials and modeling electrical resistance heating of foods Electromagnetic treatments (RF, Infrared, and UV) and fundamentals relative to heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, and stochastic processes Synergistic effect of combined food processing techniques and its numerical simulation Food processing methods are constantly improving in an effort to maintain safe, high-quality, and fresh-tasting products. Providing the theoretical basis for these cutting-edge techniques, this tried-and-tested reference provides indispensable insight into food systems modeling, while exploring applications for further research.

Examining how biomedical nanosensors play a central role in the development of diagnostics and therapeutics for the early detection and treatment of diseases, this incisive account asserts that bringing a nanoscale perspective to sensing is expected to allow interrogation of biological systems; detection of ultra small concentration of biomolecules, ions, and molecular interactions; exploration of cellular mechanisms; and integration of nanosensors into many other devices, including implantable devices. Specifically addressing nanomaterials--nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanotubes--as sensing and therapeutic agents, this expansive study also covers selected technologies involving single-molecule and single-particle methods for tracking and reveals why biomedical nanosensors constitute a major new direction in nanomedicine.