Download or read book Experiments in Unit Operations and Processing of Foods written by Maria Margarida Cortez Vieira and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process. For example in milk processing, homogenization, pasteurization, chilling, and packaging are each unit operations which are connected to create the overall process. A process may have many unit operations to obtain the desired product. The book will cover many different unit operations as they apply to food processing.