History of Pulsed Electric Fields in Food Processing

First published in
Food engineering series  
Start Page
3
End Page
54
Citation
In: Pulsed Electric Fields Technology for the Food Industry. Food Engineering Series. Springer, Cham.: 3-54 (2022)
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-70586-2_1
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85122449871
Publisher
Springer Nature
The chapter presents a review on the history of the application of electricity in food processing. The early works before the middle of the twentieth century on the bactericidal and plasmolysis effects of electricity were shortly presented. Development of the concept of electroplasmolysis with a description of the activity of key persons (Anatolii Zagorul’ko and Boris Flaumenbaum) in the 1950s is described in detail. The early practical applications of pulsed electric fields and the role of Heinz Doevenspeck are discussed. Then food-oriented applications of electric power treatments (electroplasmolysis, cooking and electroheating, and microbial killing) and construction of electro-apparatuses developed in the 1960s–1990s are presented. Finally, the recent tendencies of pulsed electric energy applications in food processing operations are outlined.
Subjects
Cooking
Electroheating
Electroplasmolysis
Electroporation
Foods
Microbial killing
Pulsed electric fields
DDC Class
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften