Main description:

Encapsulation is a topic of interest across a wide range of scientific and industrial areas, from pharmaceutics to food and agriculture, for the protection and controlled release of various substances during transportation, storage, and consumption. Since encapsulated materials can be protected from external conditions, encapsulation enhances their stability and maintains their viability. This book offers a comprehensive review of conventional and modern methods for encapsulation. It covers various thermal and nonthermal encapsulation methods applied across a number of industries, including freeze drying, spray drying, spray chilling and spray cooling, electrospinning/electrospraying, osmotic dehydration, extrusion, air-suspension coating, pan coating, and vacuum drying. The book presents basic fundamentals, principles, and applications of each method, enabling the reader to gain extended knowledge. The choice of the most suitable encapsulation technique is based on the raw materials, the required size, and the desirable characteristics of the final products.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Principles and Applications of Encapsulation Technologies

to Food Materials

Ioannis Mourtzinos and Costas G. Biliaderis

Chapter 2 Freeze Drying and Microwave Freeze Drying as Encapsulation

Methods

Vasiliki P. Oikonomopoulou and Magdalini K. Krokida

Chapter 3 Encapsulation Methods: Spray Drying, Spray Chilling and Spray

Cooling

Maciej Jaskulski, Abdolreza Kharaghani, and Evangelos Tsotsas

Chapter 4 Electro-Hydrodynamic Processes (Electrospinning and

Electrospraying): Nonthermal Processes for Micro- and

Nanoencapsulation

M.A. Busolo, S. Castro, and J.M. Lagaron

Chapter 5 Extrusion for Microencapsulation

Andriana Lazou and Magdalini K. Krokida

Chapter 6 Osmotic Dehydration and Combined Processes for Tissue

Modification and Selective Ingredient Impregnation and

Encapsulation

E. Dermesonlouoglou, P. Taoukis, and M. Giannakourou

Chapter 7 Other Technologies for Encapsulation (Air Suspension Coating,

Pan Coating, and Vacuum Drying)

Panagiota Eleni and Magdalini K. Krokida

Chapter 8 Industry-Relevant Encapsulation Technologies for Food

and Functional Food Production

Drvenica Ivana, Dordevic Verica, Trifkovic Kata, Balanc Bojana,

Levic Steva, Bugarski Branko, and Nedovic Viktor