The large amount of waste produced by the food industries causes serious environmental problems and also results in economic losses if not utilized effectively. Different research reports have revealed that food industry by-products can be good sources of potentially valuable bioactive compounds. As such, the mango juice industry uses only the edible portions of the mangoes, and a considerable ...

Over the past several years, organizations in high-risk industries such as nuclear power and aviation have become increasingly aware of the role that safety culture plays in shaping reliable and safe operations. As a result, safety professionals working in other industries and transportation modalities such as manufacturing, construction, chemical and petroleum processing, and traffic safety ha...

In the publication Growth Platforms for a Competitive Australia, McKinsey & Co. (1995) compared Australia’s relative economic prosperity with those of leading countries such as the United States. The report highlighted that Australia’s GDP per capita is 30 percent behind the best performing country, the United States. Most of this gap is due to lower labour productivity. The report was based on...

The industrial waste water containing the various dyes is responsible for water pollution, due to their carcinogenic behaviour. Lots of investigations reported that 10-12% of dyes are used every year in textile industries such as Rose Bengal, Victoria blue, Thymol blue, Caramine, Indigo Red, Red 120, Rhodamine B, Methylene Blue, Eriochrome Black-T (EBT) [1-4] of which are major portion (20%) lo...

The capacity to preserve food is directly related to the level of technological development. The slow progress in upgrading traditional food processing and preservation techniques in West Africa contributes to food and nutrition insecurity in the sub-region. Simple, low-cost, traditional food processing techniques are the bedrock of small-scale food processing enterprises that are crucial to ru...

This paper analyses the contribution of food processing industries in Spanish regional development. The agrofood industry is one of the most important industrial sectors in Spain and, in recent years, it has been an important component in the development of rural áreas. Factors affecting the location of food industries and changes taking place after accession to the European Community (EC) are ...

179 The last few lectures of an undergraduate class in fluid mechanics offer instructors an opportunity to teach students some advanced topics that go beyond the traditional course material.[1] Fluid-particle flows, where both the fluid and particle are in motion, are prevalent in many industries including the chemical, materials, and energy industries.[2] In the pharmaceutical and biotechnolog...

The production and subsequent processing, packaging and distribution of food cannot be considered in isolation from the rest of the country's economy. The Input-Output Tables for the United Kingdom (Central Statistical Office, 1968) illustrate the complex interdependencies of all its industries and may indeed be used to quantify the importance of other industrial inputs in determining the outpu...

In this study, we consider the production environment of no-wait reentrant flow shop with the objective of minimizing makespan of the jobs. In a reentrant flow shop, at least one job should visit at least one of the machines more than once. In a no-wait flowshop scheduling problem, when the process of a specific job begins on the first machine, it should constantly be processed without waiting ...