\"Nanotechnology in Food Industries: Application and Safety\"

Industrial Concentration in the Iranian Food Products and Beverages Industries

Improving Heat Transfer in Falling Film Evaporators in Food Industries

Falling film evaporators, due to their high heat transfer coefficients, low energy loss, rather a low holdup time, and the ability to handle high capacities have broad applications in food industries. Thus, this kind of evaporator is being used in the production of temperature sensitive compounds such as syrups. In this study, through modelling of the falling film evaporator with the use of...

Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Glucan Polysaccharides – Occurrence, Separation and Application in Food, Feed and Health Industries

© 2012 Kwiatkowski and Kwiatkowski, licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Glucan Polysaccharides – Occurrence, S...

Application of Lean Manufacturing Tools in the Food and Beverage Industries

Recent years have shown an increasing use of lean manufacturing (LM) principles and tools in several industrial sectors. Already a wellestablished management philosophy, it has shown numerous successful applications even outside production environments. This work presents the application of some LM tools, and the corresponding shift in philosophy, in two Portuguese companies of the food and bev...

3. Silicone in the Food Industries

Polydimethylsiloxanes as Surface-Active Ingredients in Antifoams Silicone oils, or in particular polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) materials, combine many unusual properties because of their molecular characteristics, such as the flexibility of the SiO-Si backbone and the very low cohesive energy existing between methyl groups. PDMS polymers have low surface tension, and most of them are nonvolatile ...

Safety of Nanotechnology in Food Industries

The arrival of nanotechnology in various industries has been so rapid and widespread because of its wide-ranging applications in our daily lives. Nutrition and food service is one of the biggest industries to be affected by nanotechnology in all areas, changing even the nature of food itself. Whether it's farming, food packaging, or the prevention of microbial contamination the major food indus...