Instrumentation and Sensors for the Food Industry

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E Kress-Rogers, C J B Brimelow
Woodhead Publishing, Oct 3, 2001 - Business & Economics - 836 pages
The first edition of this book quickly established itself as the standard reference in its field, and the second edition consolidates this reputation. Keeping up with the rapid change in this area, there are 16 new contributors and 8 completely new chapters, as well as major revisions to existing chapters, making this second edition a substantially longer book.

Instrumentation and sensors for the food industry 2nd edition begins with two introductory chapters to set the scene, part one covers in-line measurement of food processing operations, including colour measurement, the measurement of food composition by a range of techniques, and the measurement of pressure, temperature, level, flow and viscosity. Part two reviews instrumental techniques in the quality control laboratory, including the measurement of rheological properties, texture, water and microbiological activity. Part thee has five chapters devoted to the increasingly widespread use of electronic noses, chemosensors, biosensors, immunosensors and DNA probes.

  • Comprehensively revised and expanded edition of a standard work in its field
  • Authoritative and practical guide to the range of instrumentation and sensors available
  • Written by a distinguished international panel of experts
 

Contents

Instrumentation for food quality assurance
1
5
21
Instrumental measurements and sensory parameters
31
Principles of colour measurement for food
63
Colour measurement of foods by colour reflectance
85
Sorting by colour in the food industry
117
Food compositional analysis using near infrared absorption technology
137
Practical aspects of infrared remote thermometry
187
Inline and online rheology measurement
403
32
412
36
421
Rheological measurements of foods
425
Water activity and its measurement in food
453
61
457
Conductanceimpedance techniques for microbial assay
484
Modern methods of texture measurement
518

Inline and offline FTIR measurements
213
Microwave measurements of product variables
233
Pressure and temperature measurement in food process control
280
Level and flow measurement in food process control
303
Ultrasonic instrumentation in the food industry
326
7
368
12
375
17
388
21
397
electronic noses tongues
553
Biosensors for process monitoring and quality assurance in the food
714
Commercial devices based on biosensors
740
New biosensors
760
Glossary terms in instrumentation and sensors technology
779
Ancillary tables
800
Index
817
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About the author (2001)

Dr Erika Kress-Rogers is a former Principal Scientist at Leatherhead Food Research Association. She now works for ALSTOM. Dr Kress-Rogers is also the editor of Handbook of Biosensors and Electronic Noses: Medicine, Food and the Environment (CRC Press Inc. 1997). Christopher Brimelow is Head of Nestlé R&D Centre Shanghai Ltd. He has extensive experience in the on-line and off-line measurement of compositional and physical properties of food materials, including water, protein and lipid contents, water activity, bulk density and colour.