Sustainable dairy production

"This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines. It a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jong, Peter de, 1965- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Wiley-Blackwell 2013.
Colección:Wiley ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sustainable Dairy Production; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Sustainability and the dairy industry: hype or trend?; 1.2 Quantifying the issue: measuring footprints; 1.3 Communication: telling the whole story; 1.4 Structure of this book; References; 2 Greenhouse gas emissions from global dairy production; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Methods for calculating emissions; 2.2.1 Model description; 2.2.2 Database and data sources; 2.3 Total emissions of the dairy sector; 2.3.1 Global overview; 2.3.2 Intensification of dairy production and regional trends.
  • 2.3.3 Post-farm-gate emissions2.3.4 Sensitivity, uncertainty and validation; 2.4 Discussion; 2.4.1 Contribution to climate change; 2.4.2 Efficiency and potential for mitigation; References; 3 Life cycle assessment; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Current life cycle assessment; 3.2.1 Impacts associated with land use; 3.2.2 Global, regional and local effects; 3.2.3 Water use; 3.3 Life cycle assessment in application; 3.4 Life cycle assessment of dairy products; 3.4.1 Allocation; 3.4.2 Results of LCA; 3.5 Life cycle assessment in strategy and policy; Acknowledgements; References.
  • 4 Sustainability and resilience of the dairy sector in a changing world: a farm economic and EU perspective4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Background; 4.1.2 Purpose and focus; 4.1.3 Sustainability and dairy; 4.2 Dairy economics and sustainability; 4.2.1 Sustainability and resilience of the firm; 4.2.2 Profitability and the family farm; 4.2.3 Competitiveness; 4.3 Sustainability evaluation of the EU dairy sector; 4.3.1 Economic sustainability (profit); 4.3.2 Environmental sustainability (planet); 4.3.3 Social sustainability (people); 4.4 Agricultural policy; 4.5 Conclusion; References.
  • 5 Dairy processing5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Key unit operations and their water and energy use; 5.2.1 Milk pre-treatment; 5.2.2 Milk heat treatment; 5.2.3 Evaporation; 5.2.4 Drying; 5.2.5 Membrane filtration; 5.2.6 Cleaning; 5.2.7 Storage (conditioning, cooling); 5.2.8 Utilities (heat generation, cold generation); 5.3 Possibilities for optimisation; 5.3.1 General process optimisation; 5.3.2 Energy use; 5.3.3 Water use; 5.3.4 Waste stream valorisation; 5.4 Revisiting dairy processing: breakthrough technologies; 5.4.1 Model-based dairy production; 5.4.2 High solids evaporation and drying.