High-Pressure Processing Equipment Fundamentals

Nonthermal Processing Technologies for Food

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 20-27

  Ting, Edmund ^a  

^a Pressure BioSciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrosion, important factor in components subject to water contact; Food processors, interested in use of high pressure processing (HPP) understanding technology, operating high pressure systems in cost effective and safe manner; High pressure processing equipment fundamentals; High strength material, and poor cracking resistance the ceramic alumina; HPP vessels, in food processing rapid closing and opening systems, rapid loading and unloading of vessels; Monolithic or "monoblock" vessel simplest to make; Pressure vessel material, coming into direct contact with food acids or corrosive food products; Pump intensifier systems using an electric motor, driving a lower pressure pump to compress hydraulic fluid; Resistance to wear important materials and design factor; Use of HPP systems, food preservation and other preservation technologies, as steam retorts, aseptic filling and ammonia freezing systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886141520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470958360.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

References (2)

1. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2009. Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes. Available at: http://cstools.asme.org/ interpretations.cfm (accessed March 23, 2009).
2. Hite, B.H., Giddings, N.J., and Weakly, C.E. 1914. The Effect of Pressure on Certain Micro-Organisms Encountered in the Preservation of Fruits and Vegetables. Morgantown, Virginia: West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 146, pp. 1-67.