FBP aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in the branches of engineering and science dedicated to the safe processing of biological products. It is the only journal to exploit the synergy between biotechnology, bioprocessing and food engineering.
Papers showing how research results can be used in engineering design, and accounts of experimental or theoretical research work bringing new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating directions for future research, are particularly welcome. Contributions that deal with new developments in equipment or processes and that can be given quantitative expression are encouraged. The journal is especially interested in papers that extend the boundaries of food and bioproducts processing.
The journal has a strong emphasis on the interface between engineering and food or bioproducts. Papers that are not likely to be published are those:
• Primarily concerned with food formulation
• That use experimental design techniques to obtain response surfaces but gain little insight from them
• That are empirical and ignore established mechanistic models, e.g., empirical drying curves
• That are primarily concerned about sensory evaluation and colour
• Concern the extraction, encapsulation and/or antioxidant activity of a specific biological material without providing insight that could be applied to a similar but different material,
• Containing only chemical analyses of biological materials.
The journal publishes regular special issues focusing on specific topics
Core topic areas:
Biotechnology and bioprocessing
• Biocatalysis and biotransformations
• Bioprocess modelling and optimisation
• Bioseparation
• Fermentation and cell culture
• Bioreactor design, instrumentation and control
• Microbial physiology and engineering metabolic
• Production formulation
• Sterile processing
• Systems biology and biological engineering
• Nanobiotechnology
Biorefining and Integrated Bioresource Engineering
• Process integration of biorefineries
• Feedstock fractionation and separation in relation to biorefinery integration
• Biorefineries and the Food-Energy-Water nexus
• Biorefinery value chain optimisation
• Integration of biorefinery concepts with food processing
• New functional food ingredients and non-food materials made feasible through the biorefinery context
• Biorefinery sustainability metrics
• Dynamic modelling and analysis of biorefinery systems
Food and drink process engineering
• Engineering for food safety
• Environmental issues in food manufacture
• Minimal processing techniques
• Packaging
• Plant, process and product design
• Processing and microstructure interactions
• Unit operations, process modelling and optimisation in food engineering
Hygienic manufacture and product safety
• Fouling and cleaning
• Good manufacturing practice
• Hazard analysis
• Heating and cooling methods, including freezing, pasteurisation and thermal sterilisation
• Hygienic design
• Non-thermal processes
• Process analytical technology (PAT)
• Regulation and validation.
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Editorial board
Editors in Chief
- Marco Rito-Palomares
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico - D. Ian Wilson
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Editorial Consultants
- John Perkins
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom - Stephen Richardson
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Biotechnology and Bioprocessing
- Daniel Bracewell
University College London, London, United Kingdom - Paul Christakapoulos
Lulea University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden - Conan Fee
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand - John Kavanagh
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Vinod Kumar
Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, United Kingdom - Susanna Su Jan Leong
Singapore Institute of Technology Department of Chemical Engineering, Singapore, Singapore - Marcel Ottens
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands - Beng Ti Tey
Monash University - Malaysia Campus, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia - Owen Thomas
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Nik Willoughby
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Biorefining and Integrated Bioresource Engineering
- Grant Campbell
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom - Jason P. Hallett
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom - Elias Martinez
Mexican Petroleum Institute, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico - Jhuma Sadhukhan
University of Surrey Centre for Environment and Sustainability, Guildford, United Kingdom
Food and Drink Process Engineering
- Serafim Bakalis PhD
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark - Andrew Bayly
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom - Pedro Bouchon PhD
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, Chile - John Chew
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom - Ashim Datta
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States - Marcello Fidaleo
University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy - Charis Galanakis PhD
Galanakis Laboratories, Chania, Greece - Bryony James
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand - Ulrich Kulozik
Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany - Tim Langrish
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Nyuk Ling Chin
Putra Malaysia University, Serdang, Malaysia - Maria P. Fernández-Ronco
Independent Researcher, Switzerland - Keshavan Niranjan
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom - Cordelia Selomulya
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia - Fotios Spyropoulos
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Andrew Stapley
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom - Petros Taoukis
National Metsovian Polytechnic, Zografos, Greece - Johan Verbeek
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Hygienic Manufacture and Product Safety
- Thierry Bénézech
French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRAE, Paris, France - Marc Mauermann
Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Freising, Germany - Ken Morison
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand - Kathryn Vagg-Whitehead
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
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