Handbook of Farm, Dairy and Food Machinery Engineering

Myer Kutz has been heading his own firm, Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., since 1990. For the past two decades, he has focused on writing and developing engineering handbooks on a wide range of technical topics, such as mechanical, materials, biomedical, transportation, and environmentally conscious engineering. Earlier, his firm supplied consulting services to a large client roster, including Fortune 500 companies, scientific societies, and large and small publishers. He has been a trustee of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and chaired committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP). He is a long-time judge for the AAP's annual PROSE Awards, and holds engineering degrees from MIT and RPI, served as an officer in the US Army Ordnance Corp, and worked in the aerospace industry on the Apollo project. He is the author of nine books. He writes “The Scholarly Publishing Scene”, a column for the magazine Against the Grain. He lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife, Arlene.

"This book includes an overview of food engineering, but also regulation and safety information, machinery design for the various stages of food production, from tillage to processing and packaging. Each chapter includes the state-of-the art in technology for each subject and illustrations, tables and references to guide the reader through key concepts. It is divided into 28 sections" --IFIS Publishing

• 1. The Food Engineer2. Food Regulations3. Engineering Properties of Food Materials4. Food Safety Engineering5. Farm Machinery Automation for Tillage, Planting, Cultivation and Harvesting6. Air Seeders for Conservation Tillage Crop Production7. UAS Applications8. Grain Harvesting Machinery9. Grain Storage Systems Design10. Milking Machines and Milking Parlors11. Dairy Product Processing Equipment12. Grain Process Engineering13. Technology of Processing of Horticultural Crops14. Food Drying and Evaporation Processing Operations15. Food Freezing Technology16. Microwave Processing of Foods17. Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing18. Food Extruders19. Food Extruders20. Thermal Processing for Food Sterilization and Preservation21. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Process Modeling22. Design of Food Process Controls Systems 23. Ohmic Pasteurization of Meat and Meat Products24. Food Processing Facility Design25. Sanitary Pump Selection and Use26. Agricultural Waste Management in Food Processing27. Food Packaging Machinery28. Damage Reduction to Food Products During Transportation and Handling29. Postharvest Traetments for Fresh Produce