Unit operation
Unit Operations What do we mean by "Unit Operations"? Unit Operations "Unit Operations" = A food Processing operation which raw materials are the input and the desired product is the output Using a material balance and an energy balance, a food engineering process can be viewed overall or as a series of units. Each unit is a unit operation. The unit operation. The unit operation can be represented by a box as shown in Fig. 1.1. Unit Operation - Overview History Historically, the different chemical industries were regarded as different industrial processes and with different principles. Arthur Dehon Little developed the concept of "unit operations" to explain industrial chemistry processes in 1916. [1] In 1923, William H. Walker , Warren K. Lewis and William H. McAdams wrote the book The Principles of Chemical Engineering ...