Unit Operations in Food Processing

Prabhat K. Nema is a Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Dean, Research at NIFTEM, India. He obtained B. Tech. in Agricultural Engineering from JNKVV, Jabalpur (1995) and M. Tech. in Dairy & Food Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur in India (1997). He has experience of working in Food Industry for about four years. He completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur in Dairy and Food Engg (2008). He has more than twenty years of experience at various universities including NERIST (Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh), JNKVV (Jabalpur, MP), RVSKVV (Gwalior, MP), AAU (Anand, Gujarat) and serving NIFTEM (Kundli, Haryana) since 2011.He was National Vice President of AFSTI in 2019. He has published scientific research articles in the journals of national and international repute. He is Editor of Journal of Food Science and Technology (Springer). He has been instrumental in developing labs, conducting funded research projects, guiding research projects for number of food professionals at UG, PG and PhD level.He offers consultancy services in the area of food processing. He is also recipient of Seligman APV Award by Society of Chemical Industry, London (UK) which enabled him to have research experience in the University of Reading (UK) in 2007. As a member of NIFTEM delegation, he has visited various academic and research institutions in Germany and the Netherland in 2013. He was awarded Travel Grant by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to deliver Keynote Speech and Chair Technical Session in Asia Pacific Drying Conference in Wuxi, China in 2017.He has organized First International Conference (2013), First and Second Drying Workshop (2014 & 2015) and various training programmes at NIFTEM.

• 1.Material Balance Shivmurti Srivastav and R.K. Jain2.Energy Balance Kshitiz Kumar and Vijay Singh Sharanagat3. Fluid Flow Ramanpreet Kaur, U.S. Shivhare and Santanu Basu4. Heat Transfer Debabandya Mohapatra5.Psychrometry Vijay S. Sharanagat and Vinkel Kumar Arora6.Thermodynamics Vinkel Kumar Arora7. RefrigerationVinkel Kumar Arora8.Cleaning and Grading in Food Processing Harsh Prakash Sharma, Subir Kumar Chakraborty and H. Pandey9. Size Reduction Subir Kumar Chakraborty and Harsh Prakash Sharma10.Homogenization Anit Kumar, Ashutosh Upadhayay, Rachna Sehrawat, Babar Onkar Avinash and Rupesh Chavan11.Mixing Smriti Pillai, Sunil C.K. and Akash Pare12.Freezing Kshitiz Kumar and Vijay Singh Sharanagat13. Pasteurization Ajit Kumar Singh, Anit Kumar, Rupesh Chavan and Kumar Sandeep14.Cleaning in Place Kumar Sandeep, Kumaresh Halder, Kirtiraj K. Gaikwad and Ajit Kumar Singh15. Evaporation Subir Kumar Chakraborty and Harsh Prakash Sharma16. Drying Rachna Sehrawat, Somya Tewari, Prabhat K. Nema and Khursheed A. Khan17. Membrane Separation Process in Food Industry Prodyut Kumar Paul18.Food Extrusion Hridyesh Pandey, Harah P. Sharma, D.C. Joshi and H.N. Mishra19.Microwave Assisted Processing of Food S.S. Shirkole and Parag Prakash Sutar20. Ohmic Heating and Its Applications in Food ProcessingHilal A. Makroo, Sajad A. Sofi and Brijesh Srivastava21. Pulsed Electric Field Processing of FoodsAkhil K.G., Madaraboina Venkateswara Rao, Akash Pare and Sunil C.K. 22.Atmospheric Cold Plasma and Its Applications in Food Processing Dipsikha Kalita, Pramod K. Prabhakar and Brijesh Srivastava23.PackagingKshitiz Kumar and Vijay Singh SharanagatIndex