The Manufacture Of Glucose Syrup
Glucose syrup is manufactured from starches usually derived from maize (corn) or rice. There are seven process steps which include:- mixing process, liquefaction, deproteinization, saccharification, […]
Food Engineering
Isochoric Freezing
Isochoric freezing, also known as constant-volume freezing or pressure-shift freezing, is a process used in the food industry to preserve food products by rapidly reducing […]
Artificial Neural Networks In The Food Industry
Artificial neural networks (ANN) have found their way as an application into food manufacture, food safety, microbiology and the the supply chain. In fact they […]
The Future of Cultured Meat
Cultured meat is one of the latest innovative alternatives hitting the food industry with the primary aim of replacing the slaughtering of animals. Such a […]
What comes after 3D printing? 4D Printing I Guess
Now then, 4D printing is an advanced form of 3D printing that involves creating objects with materials that can change their shape or properties over […]
Leveraging IoT Technology In the Food Industry
Many of us have heard terms like IoT technology or the ‘Internet of Things’ at work and wondered what on earth it meant. IoT though […]
The Casson Model
The Casson model is a fundamental concept in rheology, offering insight into the flow behavior of various materials, particularly those exhibiting non-Newtonian behavior. In this […]
The Issue Of Powder Clumping
Powder clumping is a pain for anybody making food or pharmaceutical products! In fact it has other terms too including caking and agglomeration but whatever […]
Flocculation
One of the fundamental processes of downstream processing of biomolecules is the separation of insoluble material from soluble material. It is regularly used in wastewater […]
What is Asset Performance Management?
Asset Performance Management (APM) is a holistic approach to managing and optimizing the performance of an organization’s physical assets throughout their lifecycle. The goal of […]
What is Risk-Based Maintenance?
Risk-Based Maintenance (RBM) is a maintenance strategy that prioritizes maintenance activities based on the level of risk associated with the failure of a particular asset […]
What is Reliability-Centered Maintenance?
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a structured approach to maintenance planning and decision-making that aims to ensure the reliability and functionality of physical assets while optimizing […]
The Planned Maintenance Percentage
The term “planned maintenance percentage” refers to the proportion of time that a system or equipment is intentionally taken offline for scheduled maintenance activities as […]
Electron Beam Technology: An Acceptable Route For Food Safety
Food safety is paramount throughout the world. Without it we can have no confidence in what we eat if we think it might harm us. […]
An Overview Of Industrial Membrane Processes
Overview Of Membrane Processes Membrane processes are commonly used in the food processing industry and there are a vast range of applications in the biological […]
The Importance Of Starch Gelatinization
Starch is the major storage carbohydrate in plants. It’s also perhaps the most important agricultural commodity in food and is a basic source of energy […]
The Process of Manufacture of a Pet Food
Pet food is divided into various basic types. These include dry, semi-moist or intermediate moisture, as well as frozen dessert types and canned foods. The […]
The Power Of 3D Printing Your Food
There is a new technology on the block: 3D Printing. The whole concept is such that a number of businesses are trying out the technology […]
The Emergence Of High Pressure Processing
Of all the emerging technologies to have entered the field of food processing in a major way, high pressure processing (HPP) is perhaps the one […]
Pervaporation In Recovery Of Key Volatiles
When I first used membranes in my Ph.D., pervaporation was a method seen as an adjunct to gas separation methods being explored at the time. […]