Food & Drinks

Though commercial food freezing had been known since the 1920s, it did not become commonplace domestically until the 1950s and chemical engineering has played a large role in making this happen.

As an example of what food of the future may come from and how chemical engineering can help get us there, we showcase a process developed in Finland by Solar Foods

Assisted Reproduction is a field where incredible progress has been made over the past 50 years, accelerated still further due to the incredible advances in genetic engineering

The role of food process/chemical engineering in delivering food security to an increasing global population, improving health (nutritional intake) of consumers, developing process sustainability and environmentally friendly (reduced emissions and climate change) food processing technologies towards a truly circular economy

Chocolate is a food we all eat – but to make it cheaply and safely involves engineering.

The application of chemical engineering to biological processes affects the food and drink industry, but much more. This article explores links between Brewing and advanced Biotechnology

Bread is the world’s most important food, because of its bubbles, made possible because of the unique gluten proteins in wheat flour. Bread has been well studied by cereal chemists and practical bakers, but bubbles are physical entities, for which the chemical engineer is well placed to make a unique contribution.

Dairy farming and milk processing have long been a major component of the New Zealand economy; it is the largest export goods sector in New Zealand accounting for approximately one in every three dollars NZ earns. In this article, Dr Kevin Marshall discuss the exciting possibilities for biotechnology and the benefits of applying chemical engineering to add value and reduce environmental impacts. The article provides a vision of how chemical engineers lead the transformation of a polluting by-product to a valuable, highly nutritious protein.

In 1905 the first industrial spray dryer came into use, converting milk into powder continuously in one step – a remarkable chemical engineering process which still produces most of the powdered milk today. This article shows how chemical engineering changed the world, and the details you may not have thought about in everyday products. It also show the importance of particle technology in chemical engineering by means of familiar items and to indicate the complexity of an apparently simple operation.