Innovations in Agri-Food Plants
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 17686
Special Issue Editor
Interests: agri-food engineering; agricultural machinery; image analysis; mechanical plants; food plants
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Dear Colleagues,
The agri-food industry has undergone a leap forward in technological innovation over the last few decades to improve the product quality and optimize the use of resources. The current requirements of the plant engineering sector aim to use new machines and therefore new plants to increase the production performance, while also considering the need to reduce production waste, aiming to reuse by-products. These objectives are possible by designing new technologies for the production, treatment, and processing of agri-food products, and thanks to the introduction of 4.0 and 5.0 technologies at both the diagnostic and production level. These latter aspects have become very important today, especially following the recent energy crisis that is affecting the entire globe. The study and development of new technologies is also possible thanks to the use of tools such as finite element analysis (FEA) and the application of simulation models in general.
This Special Issue aims to collect papers concerning the application of innovative systems, including reviews, to improve the knowledge in the machine and plant field, mainly with the aim of showing the changes in agri-food machinery and plants in the transition towards eco-sustainable technologies and 4.0 and 5.0 technologies, also with a view to a circular economy.
Prof. Dr. Roberto Romaniello
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- unit operations in agri-food industries
- emerging food processing technologies
- innovative plants
- FEA (finite elements analysis)
- industry 4.0
- industry 5.0
- sustainability
- by-products recovery
- circular economy
- energy saving
- IoT systems
- non-destructive analyses
- remote sensing
- measurement and control in food processing
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