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- Mixing: The production of a homogenous mass from two or more components
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- Heating
- Pasteurization, sterilization
- Boiling, baking….
- Cooling
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- Separation of components on the basis of some physical property
- Density
- Size
- Boiling point
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- Reduction of the size of particles in a food
- Grinding
- Cutting
- Slicing
- Milling
- Combining smaller particles into a larger mass
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- Mass transfer: The transfer of mass into or out of a substance based on
physical properties
- The transfer of a chemical compound from one phase to another
- Examples:
- Evaporation: liquid gas
- Diffusion: high concentration low concentration
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- Examples of processes with mass transfer
- Drying
- Evaporation
- Salt diffusion through cheese curd
- Smoke diffusion through meat
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- Fluid flow: Transfer of a fluid from one point to another
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- Some pump types:
- Positive Displacement
- Rotary lobe
- Piston
- Progressing cavity
- Centrifugal
- Factors affecting pump choice?
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- Cookies?
- Canned diced tomatoes?
- Homogenized, pasteurized milk?
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- Many food processes involve combinations of more than one unit operation
and/or chemical or biochemical
operations
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- Homogenization
- Fluid flow
- Size reduction
- Heat transfer
- Pasteurization
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- Cheesemaking
- Fluid flow
- Mixing
- Heat transfer
- Size adjustment
- Mass transfer
- Separation
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- Frying (potato chip)
- Extrusion (to make cocoa puffs)
- Canning (using rotary retort)
- Bread making
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