Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering

Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering
Author: Eduardo Jacob Lopes
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1003809154

Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering, Volume I - Fundamentals, Technologies, and Management is a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge about food engineering and processing, under sustainable engineering perspective. This book includes disruptive approaches that will potentially enable the food industry for the transition to sustainable production. Divided into four parts, the book explores (i) fundamentals of sustainable food, (ii) conventional technologies in the food industry, (iii) sustainabile emerging technologies in food industries, and (iv) sustainable management in food industries. The book is an invaluable reference resource for students, researchers, graduates, and professionals, in general, who wish to gain knowledge in the engineering and food processing area as well as about sustainable food industry practices.

The Economics of Sustainable Food

The Economics of Sustainable Food
Author: Nicoletta Batini
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1642831611

The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.--Amazon.

Smart Manufacturing

Smart Manufacturing
Author: Masoud Soroush
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128203811

Research efforts in the past decade have led to considerable advances in the concepts and methods of smart manufacturing. Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies includes information about the key applications of these new methods, as well as practitioners' accounts of real-life applications and case studies. Written by thought leaders in the field from around the world, Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, process engineers and managers. It is complemented by a companion book titled Smart Manufacturing: Concepts and Methods, which describes smart manufacturing methods in detail. - Includes examples of applications of smart manufacturing in process industries - Provides a thorough overview of the subject and practical examples of applications through well researched case studies - Offers insights and accounts of first-hand experiences to motivate further implementations of the key concepts of smart manufacturing

Food Technology Disruptions

Food Technology Disruptions
Author: Charis M. Galanakis
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128214740

Food Technology Disruptions covers the latest disruptions in the food industry, such as the Internet of Things, digital technologies, modern applications like 3D printing, bacterial sensors in food packaging, electronic noses for food authentication, and artificial intelligence. With additional discussions on innovative distribution and delivery of food and consumer acceptance of food disruptions, this book is an essential resource for food scientists, technologists, engineers, agriculturalists, chemists, product developers, researchers, academics and professionals working in the food industry. While innovations play an important role in food production, disruptive technologies are a revolutionary type of innovation that can displace an established technology and shake up the industry...or create a completely new industry. Currently, digital technologies and smart applications lead innovations in the food sector in order to optimize the food supply chain and to develop and deliver tailor-made food products to consumers with new eating habits. - Covers digital technologies in agriculture, food production and food processing, modern eating habits, personalized nutrition, and relevant innovative food products - Brings alternative protein sources, novel functional foods and artificial meat - Discusses the Internet of Things, digital technologies and modern applications like 3D printing, smart packaging and smart food distribution

Future Foods

Future Foods
Author: Rajeev Bhat
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2021-12-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0323910017

Future Foods: Global Trends, Opportunities, and Sustainability Challenges highlights trends and sustainability challenges along the entire agri-food supply chain. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book addresses innovations, technological developments, state-of-the-art based research, value chain analysis, and a summary of future sustainability challenges. The book is written for food scientists, researchers, engineers, producers, and policy makers and will be a welcomed reference. Provides practical solutions for overcoming recurring sustainability challenges along the entire agri-food supply chain Highlights potential industrial opportunities and supports circular economy concepts Proposes novel concepts to address various sustainability challenges that can affect and have an impact on the future generations

FUTURE SMART FOOD

FUTURE SMART FOOD
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9251304955

This publication demonstrates the benefits of neglected and underutilized species, including amaranth, sorghum and cowpea, and their potential contribution to achieving Zero Hunger in South and Southeast Asia.

The Food Industry

The Food Industry
Author: Diego T. Santos
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781685073442

"The Food Industry: Perceptions, Practices and Future Prospects explores different aspects related to the food industry. The book begins by presenting various perceptions towards western and ayurvedic food industries. It continues by examining the potential of enhancing agents in replacing chemical additives in bread processing and discussing the performance of whole grain wheat flour and the enzyme transglutaminase on the technological characteristics of spaghetti. Additionally, the book includes a study of microbial pectinases, cellulases and xylanases in the food industry, focusing on types of support and immobilization techniques, as well as an experimental study focusing on shelf-life increase of pineapples via drying techniques. Other chapters focus on different yeast strain approaches in beer production, the use of natural bioactive compounds from plants and their extraction processes, and essential oil extraction techniques for Venezuelan lemons, among other topics"--

Food Engineering Innovations Across the Food Supply Chain

Food Engineering Innovations Across the Food Supply Chain
Author: Pablo Juliano
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128212926

Food Engineering Innovations Across the Food Supply Chain discusses the technology advances and innovations into industrial applications to improve supply chain sustainability and food security. The book captures the highlights of the 13th International Congress of Engineering ICEF13 under selected congress themes, including Sustainable Food Systems, Food Security, Advances in Food Process Engineering, Novel Food Processing Technologies, Food Process Systems Engineering and Modeling, among others. Edited by a team of distinguished researchers affiliated to CSIRO, this book is a valuable resource to all involved with the Food Industry and Academia. Feeding the world's population with safe, nutritious and affordable foods across the globe using finite resources is a challenge. The population of the world is increasing. There are two opposed sub-populations: those who are more affluent and want to decrease their caloric intake, and those who are malnourished and require more caloric and nutritional intake. For sustainable growth, an increasingly integrated systems approach across the whole supply chain is required. Focuses on innovation across the food supply chain beyond the traditional food engineering discipline Brings the integration of on-farm with food factory operations, the inclusion of Industry 4.0 sensing technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) across the food chain to reduce food wastage, water and energy inputs Makes a full intersection into other science domains (operations research, informatics, agriculture and agronomy, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics, intelligent packaging, among others)

Emerging Food Packaging Technologies

Emerging Food Packaging Technologies
Author: Kit L Yam
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0857095668

The successful employment of food packaging can greatly improve product safety and quality, making the area a key concern to the food processing industry. Emerging food packaging technologies reviews advances in packaging materials, the design and implementation of smart packaging techniques, and developments in response to growing concerns about packaging sustainability.Part one of Emerging food packaging technologies focuses on developments in active packaging, reviewing controlled release packaging, active antimicrobials and nanocomposites in packaging, and edible chitosan coatings. Part two goes on to consider intelligent packaging and how advances in the consumer/packaging interface can improve food safety and quality. Developments in packaging material are analysed in part three, with nanocomposites, emerging coating technologies, light-protective and non-thermal process packaging discussed, alongside a consideration of the safety of plastics as food packaging materials. Finally, part four explores the use of eco-design, life cycle assessment, and the utilisation of bio-based polymers in the production of smarter, environmentally-compatible packaging.With its distinguished editors and international team of expert contributors, Emerging food packaging technologies is an indispensable reference work for all those responsible for the design, production and use of food and beverage packaging, as well as a key source for researchers in this area. - Reviews advances in packaging materials, the design and implementation of smart packaging techniques, and developments in response to growing concerns about packaging sustainability - Considers intelligent packaging and how advances in the consumer/packaging interface can improve food safety and quality - Examines developments in packaging materials, nanocomposites, emerging coating technologies, light-protective and non-thermal process packaging and the safety of plastics as food packaging materials

Evaluation Technologies for Food Quality

Evaluation Technologies for Food Quality
Author: Jian Zhong
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128142189

Evaluation Technologies for Food Quality summarizes food quality evaluation technologies, which include sensory evaluation techniques and chemical and physical analysis. In particular, the book introduces many novel micro and nano evaluation techniques, such as atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and other nanomaterial-based methods. All topics cover basic principles, procedures, advantages, limitations, recent technology development, and application progress in different types of foods. This book is a valuable resource for scientists in the field of food science, engineering, and professionals in the food industry, as well as for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying food quality evaluation technology. - Explains basic principles, procedures, advantages, limitations, and current applications of recent food quality technologies - Provides guidance on the understanding and application of food quality evaluation technology in the field of food research and food industry - Introduces many novel micro/nano evaluation techniques, such as atomic force and scanning electron microscopies and other nanomaterial-based methods