Pulsed Electric Fields Technology for the Food Industry

Javier Raso is a Professor of Food Technology at the University of Zaragoza in Spain.Volker Heinz is the Head of the German Institute of Food Technologies at Quakenbrück.Ignacio Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Food Technology at the University of Zaragoza in Spain.Stefan Toepfl is the Managing Director of Elea, a leading food processing equipment supplier in Quakenbrück, Germany.

• History of PEF in food processing.- Basic electric concepts and generation of high voltage pulses.- The phenomenon of electroporation.- Electrochemical reaction in PEF treatment.- Microbial inactivation by PEF.- Cell membrane permeabilization by PEF.- Effect of PEF on food quality.- Liquid food pasteurization by PEF.- PEF in the potato industry.- PEF applications in a Winery.- Improving sugar extraction by PEF.- PEF applications in tomato Industry.- Improving oil extraction from plant foods by PEF.- Improving extraction of compounds from microalgae.- Application of PEF for valorization of by products from the food industry.- Other applications of PEF in the food industry.- PEF industrial equipment design.- PEF process performance analysis.- Process validation and Hygienic design for PEF processing.- Environmental impact assessment of the PEF technology incorporation in food processing.- Regulation of foods processed by PEF.