New Frontiers in Food Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 5736
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food engineering; refrigeration; cold chain; heat transfer; energy conversion and efficiency
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Due to its vital role for human life, health and well-being, the food and drink industry is among the world’s paramount sectors and keeps the lead in terms of turnover, employment and number of companies. To produce healthy and tasty foods and beverages, food engineering employs a vast diversity of technologies, which range from traditional processing modes, known from millennia, to the most advanced and groundbreaking achievements of today’s science. Nevertheless, food engineering is often rather underestimated as a forefront of knowledge and remains not so attractive for the younger generations, as compared with high-tech branches. ‘Once my grandma cooks so well, what innovations could be expected there?’, many people think.
Hence, the Special Issue ‘New Frontiers in Food Engineering’ is designed to fill in the aforementioned gap by spotlighting recent progress in the food and drink supply chains from Farm to Fork (e.g. production, packaging, storage, transport, distribution and household handling). The issue welcomes original research and review paper contributions focusing on the interaction between foods and food manufacturing and handling systems. For instance, the thematic scope covers (but is not limited to) the following topics:
- Engineering properties of foods and food ingredients;
- Heat transfer, fluid flow, process innovation and intensification;
- Biochemical and microbiological phenomena, safety, quality and shelf life;
- Modelling and simulation of food production and preservation processes;
- Sensors, measurements, quality control and traceability along the food chain;
- Thermal and refrigerated processing and preservation;
- Non-thermal, unconventional and alternative processing;
- Hygienic engineering and design, cleaning and sanitation;
- Packaging, MAP, biodegradable and intelligent packaging;
- Energy and economic efficiency of food production and preservation equipment;
- Environmentally friendly and circular food engineering;
- Integration of renewable energy throughout the food chain;
- Carbon-neutral and sustainable food manufacturing and handling systems;
- Digitalisation and cybersecurity of food supply chains;
- Food engineering policy, state-of-the-art and future trends.
In general, the concerned topics should address the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal. The authorship will be of particular interest to all food scientists, researchers, technologists and engineers who are required to publish their professional findings through Open Access. It is also anticipated to publish the Special Issue as a dedicated book to be promoted and distributed worldwide via Amazon, eBookMall, Apple books, etc.
Prof. Kostadin Fikiin
Prof. Dr. Stepan Akterian
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- food
- engineering
- food chain
- manufacture
- processing
- preservation
- safety, quality
- shelf life
- sustainability
