1st Edition

Optimization in Food Engineering

Edited By Ferruh Erdogdu Copyright 2008
    758 Pages 242 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    While mathematically sophisticated methods can be used to better understand and improve processes, the nonlinear nature of food processing models can make their dynamic optimization a daunting task. With contributions from a virtual who’s who in the food processing industry, Optimization in Food Engineering evaluates the potential uses and limitations of optimization techniques for food processing, including classical methods, artificial intelligence-genetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization procedures, and computational fluid dynamics.

    The book begins by delineating the fundamentals and methods for analytical and numerical procedures. It then covers optimization techniques and how they specifically apply to food processing. The final section digs deep into fundamental food processes and provides detailed explanation and examples from the most experienced and published authors in the field. This includes a range of processes from optimization strategies for improving the performance of batch reactors to the optimization of conventional thermal processing, microwave heating, freeze drying, spray drying, and refrigeration systems, to structural optimization techniques for developing beverage containers, optimization approaches for impingement processing, and optimal operational planning methodologies. Each chapter presents the required parameters for the given process with the optimization procedure to apply.

    An increasing part of the food processor’s job is to optimize systems to squeeze more dollars out of overhead to offset rising utility and transportation costs. Logically combining optimization techniques from many sources into a single volume focused on food production processes, this book provides real solutions to increases in energy, healthcare, and product liability costs that impact the bottom line in food production.

    Modeling: Significance, Fundamentals, and Methods

    Significance of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation for Optimization, Q.T. Ho, H.K. Mebatsion, B. Nicolaï, and P. Verboven

    Analytical Solutions in Conduction Heat Transfer Problems, F. Erdogdu and M. Turhan

    Numerical Solutions: Finite Difference Methods, T.K, Palazoglu and F. Erdogdu

    Numerical Solutions: Finite Element and Finite Volume Methods, R.C. Martins, V.V. Lopes, A.A. Vicente, and J.A. Teixeira

    Optimization

    Optimization: An Introduction, F. Erdogdu

    Statistical Optimization: Response Surface Methodology, K.-N. Chen and M.-J Chen

    Random-Centroid Optimization, S. Nakai, Y. Horimoto, J. Dou, and R.A. Verdini

    Multi-Objective Optimization in Food Engineering, C.K. Seng and G.P. Rangaiah

    Applications of the Minimum Principle of Pontryagin for Solving Optimal Control Problems, A.V. Kuznetsov

    Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, Y. Meng and H.S. Ramaswamy

    Computational Fluid Dynamics for Optimization in Food Processing, F. Erdogdu

    Dynamic Optimization, J.R. Pérez-Correa, C.A. Gelmi, and L.T. Biegler

    Tabu Search: Development, Algorithm, Performance, and Applications, M. Srinivas and G.P. Rangaiah

    Eigenvalue Optimization Techniques for Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis and Design, L.G. Matallana, A.M. Blanco, and J.A. Bandoni

    Complex Method Optimization, F. Erdogdu and M.O. Balaban

    Mixed Integer Linear Programming Scheduling in the Food Industry, P. Doganis and H. Sarimveis

    Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming: Applications to Food Dehydration and Deep Chilling, P.P. Repoussis and C.T. Kiranoudis

    Optimization Studies for Different Food Processes

    Optimization and Control Strategy to Improve the Performance of Batch Reactors, I.M. Mujtaba

    Pulsed Microwave Heating of Foods: Temperature Measurement and Optimization, S. Gunasekaran

    Optimization of Freeze-Drying Process Applied to Food and Biological Products: From Response Surface Methodologies to an Interactive Tool, M. Marin, S. Passot, F. Fonseca, and I.C. Trelea

    Optimization of Spray Drying of Sugar-Rich Foods, V. Truong

    Structural Optimization Techniques for Developing Beverage Containers, K. Yamazaki, J. Han, and S. Nishiyama

    Optimization for Continuous Shortest Paths in Transportation, J.M. Díaz-Báñez

    Real-Time Nonlinear Optimal Control of Refrigeration Processes, J.C. Trelea

    Optimization of Apple Juice Extraction, M.T. González and M.J. Urbicain

    Optimization of Canned Food Processing, R. Simpson and A.A. Teixeira

    Optimal Design of Continuous Thermal Processing with Plate Heat Exchangers, J.A.W. Gut and J.M. Pinto

    Process Optimization Strategies to Reduce Variability in Thermal Processing of Packaged Foods, K. Cronin and P. Baucour

    Loading Optimization, R. Morabito and V. Pureza

    Optimization of the Arrays of Impinging Jets, M. Can and A.B. Etemoglu

    Optimal Operational Planning in the Fruit Industry Supply Chain, G.L. Masini, A.M. Blanco, N.C. Petracci, and J.A. Bandoni

    Optimizing the Management of Curing Chambers, J. Bon and A. Mulet

    Index

    Biography

    Ferruh Erdogdu