Download or read book Advances in Bioprocessing Engineering written by Xiusheng Harrison Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of peer-reviewed articles reporting on the latest developments in several food engineering and agricultural processing laboratories at US land-granted universities. The contributors are leading experts in their respective fields. The topics covered in the book include new food processing technologies (such as high voltage electric field processing and microwave sterilization/pasteurization), conversion of agricultural by-products into high quality refined cellulose or biodegradable plastics, and advances in machine vision inspection and sorting techniques for fruit and vegetable packaging lines. Each chapter begins with a general background review with important references, and ends with the latest results from each research laboratory. Contents:Microwave Heating in Food Processing (J Tang et al.)Improving Safety and Quality of Orange Juice by Pulse Electric Field Processing (Q H Zhang et al.)High-Speed Machine Vision Inspection for On-Line Sorting of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables (Y Tao & Z Wen)Machine Vision Techniques for Defect Inspection on Fruit Packing Lines (Y Tao & Z Wen)Highly Refined Cellulose from Agricultural Fibrous By-Products (R R Ruan & P L Chen)Biodegradable Plastics from Renewable Biomaterials (S X Sun) Readership: Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in food and bioprocessing engineering, researchers in related fields, government administrators, and businessmen in agriculture and food science, technology, engineering and business development. Keywords:Microwave;Pulse Electric Field;Sterilization;Pasteurization;Machine Vision;Sorting;Biomaterials, Refined Cellulose;Biodegradable Materials;Plastics;Microwave Heating;Dieletric Properties;Imaging Processing;Machine Vision;Color Sorting;Agricultural By-Products;Bioploymers;Biodegradable Plastics