Instrumentation and sensors for the food industry

Erika Kress-Rogers, Christopher J B Brimelow084931223X, 9780849312236, 1855735601, 9781855735606

An authoritative and practical guide to the range of instrumentation and sensors available to the food technology professional. Revised to include new developments and techniques, including the development of on-line sensors for immediate analysis and control of production.

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Table of contents :
Preliminaries……Page 1
Contents……Page 5
Preface……Page 11
1 Instrumentation for food quality assurance……Page 31
2 Instrumental measurements and sensory parameters……Page 61
3 Principles of colour measurement for food……Page 93
4 Colour measurement of foods by colour reflectance……Page 115
5 Sorting by colour in the food industry……Page 147
6 Food compositional analysis using near infra red absorption technology……Page 167
7 Practical aspects of infra red remote thermometry……Page 217
8 In line and off line FTIR measurements……Page 243
9 Microwave measurements of product variables……Page 263
10 Pressure and temperature measurement in food process control……Page 310
11 Level and flow measurement in food process control……Page 333
12 Ultrasonic instrumentation in the food industry……Page 356
13 Ultrasound propagation in foods and ambient gases principles and applications……Page 385
14 In line and on line rheology measurement……Page 433
15 Rheological measurements of foods……Page 455
16 Water activity and its measurement in food……Page 483
17 Conductance impedance techniques for microbial assay……Page 514
18 Modern methods of texture measurement……Page 548
19 Sensors for food flavour and freshness electronic noses tongues and testers……Page 583
20 Chemosensors biosensors immunosensors and DNA probes the base devices……Page 653
21 Biosensors for process monitoring and quality assurance in the food industry……Page 744
22 Commercial devices based on biosensors……Page 770
23 New biosensors……Page 790
Appendix A Glossary terms in instrumentation and sensors technology……Page 809
Appendix B Ancillary tables……Page 830
Index……Page 847