The packaging sector is an important global industry, representing about 2% of the Gross National Product (GNP) of the developed countries. The value of the packaging industry is about 345 million euros worldwide, of which Europe represents a third. Fifty per cent of this market is packaging for food. Forecasts suggest that the sector will continue to grow in size and importance Many cooking and preservation processes still largely depend on effective packaging, for example canning, aseptic, sous vide and baking processes. Processes such as drying and freezing would be lost without protective packaging after processing to control product exposure to the effects of oxygen light, water vapour, bacterial and other contaminants. However, modern food packaging no longer has just a passive role in protecting and marketing the product. It increasingly has an active role in processing, preservation

Consumers are the centre of product development in the food industry, directly in the design of consumer products and indirectly in the design of commodity products and industrial products. In industrial product development, the emphasis is on the immediate customer, but consideration needs to be given to the acceptance of the final product by the consumer. It is important in product development to understand basic consumer behaviour and food choice as well as the individual product/consumer relationship(Earle, 1997). Differences among

The aim of this chapter is to identify the important factors in food product development to be studied in detail in the succeeding chapters. Firstly the different groups of food products are identified as a basis for organising product strategy. Then the published research on the factors in product failure and product success in all types of industries is used to identify the key factors in food product development. This leads into the management of product development at three different levels:

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(a)Find V, in Fig. 8-20.(b)To what identical value should each of the 4Q2 resistors be changed so that V2 is 180 out of phase with the source voltage?

In this chapter we shall show how the phasor methods developed to analyze circuits operating under sinusoidal steady- state conditions can be applied to the study of three-phase ac circuits

In this chapter we will develop the concept of average power as distinguished from instantaneous power. We will also be concerned with apparent power, power factor, and complex power. By the way, we discuss the maximum amount of power transfer from the source to the load

In this chapter we introduce a circuit element that is very important in circuit design, the operational amplifier.This element will be used extensively in the studies of future chapters. Here we consider its use with resistors only to perform the algebraic functions of multiplication, addition and subtraction

The set of variables is a hybrid set that may include both currents and voltages. They are the inductor currents and the capacitor voltages. Each of these quantities may be used directly to express the energy stored in the inductor or capacitor at any instant of time. They collectively describe the energy state of the system. They are called the state variables

You are asked to set off from any piece of the lands and pass through all the seven bridges under the condition that each bridge can be used only once, so that you can finally return to the starting point