Aim of this course is to provide a theoretical background on working principle and selection criteria of the main equipments and industrial plants in use in the food industries.
At the end of the course the student will be able to understand the interaction between raw materials and machineries in order to properly choose the appropriate equipment for the required unitary operation.
1. Introductory concepts about batch and continuous precess
2. Materials in use for food equipments – Part I
3. Materials in use for food equipments – Part II
4. Equipment for raw material handling: pneumatic systems - Part I
5. Equipment for raw material handling: pneumatic systems - Part ...
6. Equipment for raw material handling: pneumatic systems - Part ...
7. Equipment for raw material handling: pneumatic systems - Part I...
8. Size reduction equipment - Part I
9. Size reduction equipments - Part II
10. Extruders
12. Positive displacement pumps
14. Cold Chain Equipment - Part I
15. Cold Chain Equipment - Part II
16. Cold Chain Equipment - Part III
17. Separation equipment - Part I
18. Separation Equipments – Part II
21. Liquid Mixing
Fabrizio Sarghini graduated in Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan with honors, and received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II.
Winner of CNR grants and NATO research fellowship at the University of Naples Federico II, was for about three years Research Associate at University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
At the same time he was a Visiting Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center.
Since 2005 he is researcher at the University of Naples Federico II and teacher of Machinery and Equipment for the Food Industry.
It ‘been a consultant for Enel Research and companies in the food industry, and is a reviewer for national and international journals. An expert in heat and mass transport issues with particular experience in numerical fluid dynamics, current research topics focuses on modeling applied to agro-food applications including microfluidics, sensors and asepting processing.