Ph.D. August 1980, Mechanical Engineering,
University of Florida

M.S. June 1976, Agricultural Engineering
University of Florida

B.S. June 1974, Agricultural Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

 

July 1991 - present, Professor
Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Feb. 1999 - present, Co-Director
Center for Processing and Packaging Studies ( A National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center)

Oct. 1997 - Sept. 1998, NestleŽ R&D Center, Inc., New Milford, CT, and NestleŽ Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland (Sabbatical leave)

Sept. 1987 - June 1991, Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Engineering
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

July 1986 - Aug. 1987, Associate Professor
Department of Food Science
The Pennsylvania State University

March 1983 - June 1986, Assistant Professor
Department of Food Science
The Pennsylvania State University

Sept. 1980- March 1983, Assistant
Department of Agricultural Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University

Paper award, 2001, for the paper: "Noninvasive measurement of temperature within a continuously flowing solid-liquid mixture"; II International Conference on Industrial Heat Engineering, Kiev, Ukraine, May 28-June 2, 2001.

Research and Development Award, Institute of Food Technologists, 1997. Presented in recognition of an significant improvement in the understanding of food science or technology.

Lumley Research Award, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1997, in recognition of outstanding research performance.

Departmental Research Awards, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, 1996.

Senior Moulton Medal, 1994 from the Institution of Chemical Engineers, U.K. for the best paper published in the IChemE Transactions. "Particle Damage and Particle-Wall Collisions During Pumping of Solid-Liquid Mixtures" co-authored with Budi Rahardjo.

Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award of Merit, 1993.

 

Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

U.S. Editorial Board, International Journal of Refrigeration

Editorial Board, Journal of Food Process Engineering, Food and Bioproducts Processing
                     (Transactions, Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK, Part C)

Editorial Board, Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies.

Editorial Board, Agricultural Sciences.

 

Sastry, S.K., and Zitoun, K. 1997. Continuous flow ohmic heating of solid-liquid mixtures: determination of interstitial velocity, rotation and stochastic area fraction. Engineering and Food at ICEF7. R. Jowitt, Ed. : E1-E4. Sheffield, Academic Press.

Wang, W-C., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Starch gelatinization-electrical conductivity relationships during ohmic heating. Engineering and Food at ICEF7. R. Jowitt, Ed. : A13-A16. Sheffield, Academic Press.

75.Sensoy, I., Zhang, Q.H., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Inactivation kinetics of Salmonella dublin by Pulsed Electric Field. J. Food Proc. Engr., 20(5):367-381 .

Wang, W-C, and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Starch gelatinization in ohmic heating. J. Food Engr. 34(3):225-242.

Alhamdan, A., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Residence time distribution of food and simulated particles in a holding tube. J. Food Engr. 34:271-292.

Wang, W-C., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Changes in electrical conductivity of selected vegetables during multiple thermal treatments. J. Food Proc. Engr. 20:499-516.

Baptista, P.N., Oliveira, F.A.R., Oliveira, J.C., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Effect of translational and rotational velocity components on fluid-to-particle heat transfer coefficients in continuous tube flow. Food Research International 30(1):21-27.

Baptista, P.N., Oliveira, F.A.R., Oliveira, J.C., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Dimensionless analysis of the flow of spherical particles in two-phase flow in straight tubes. J. Food. Engr. 31:125-136.

Baptista, P.N., Oliveira, F.A.R., Oliveira, J.C., and Sastry, S.K. 1997. Dimensionless analysis of fluid-to-particle heat transfer coefficients. J. Food Engr. 31:199-218.

Sastry, S.K. 1997. Measuring the residence time and modeling a multiphase aseptic system. Food Technol. 51(10):44-48.

Alhamdan, A., and Sastry, S.K. 1998. Residence time distribution of food and simulated particles in a model horizontal swept-surface heat exchanger. J. Food Proc. Engr. 21:145-180.

Alhamdan, A., and Sastry, S.K. 1998. Bulk heat transfer coefficient of multiple particles flowing in a holding tube. Food and Bioproducts Processing. Trans. IChemE Part C. 76: 95-101.

Orangi, S., and Sastry, S.K., and Li, Q. 1998. A numerical investigation of electroconductive heating of solid-liquid mixtures. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 41(14):2211-2220.

Sastry, S.K., and Salengke, S. 1998. Ohmic heating of solid-liquid mixtures: a comparison of mathematical models under worst-case heating conditions. J. Food Proc. Engr. 21(6):441-458.

Cho, H-Y; Yousef, A.E., and Sastry, S.K. 1999. Kinetics of inactivation of Bacillus subtilis spores by continuous or intermittent ohmic or conventional heating. Biotechnol. & Bioeng. 62(3):368-372.

Lima, M., Heskitt, B.F., and Sastry, S.K. 1999. The effect of frequency and wave form on the electrical conductivity-temperature profiles of turnip tissue. J. Food Proc. Engr. 22:41-54.

Lima, M., and Sastry, S.K. 1999. The effects of ohmic heating frequency on hot-air drying rate, desorption isotherms and juice yield. J. Food Engr. 41:115-119.

Lima, M., Heskitt, B.F., Burianek, L.B., Nokes, S.E., and Sastry, S.K. 1999. Ascorbic acid degradation kinetics during conventional and ohmic heating. J. Food Proc. & Pres. 23(5):421-434.

Wang, W-C., and Sastry, S.K. 2000. Effects of thermal and electrothermal pretreatments on hot air drying rate of vegetable tissue. J. Food Proc. Engr. 23(4):299-319.

Sastry, S.K., and Barach, J.T. 2000. Ohmic and inductive heating. J. Food Sci. 65(8): 42s-46s.

Sastry, S.K., Datta, A.K., and Worobo, R. 2000. Ultraviolet light. J. Food Sci. 65(8): 90s-92s.

Lima, M. , Heskitt, B.F., and. Sastry , S.K. 2001. Diffusion of beet dye during electrical and conventional heating at steady-state temperature. J. Food Proc. Engr. 24(5):331-340.

Zitoun, K.B., Sastry, S.K., and Guezennec, Y. 2001. Investigation of three-dimensional interstitial velocity, solids motion and flow structure in solid-liquid flow using Particle Tracking Velocimetry. Int. J. Multiphase Flow 27(8):1397-1414.

Sastry, S.K., Salengke, S., and Li, Q. 2001. Noninvasive measurement of temperature within a continuously flowing solid-liquid mixture. Promyshlennaya Teplotekhnika (Industrial Heat Engineering), 23(3):128-131.

Kulshrestha, S.A., and Sastry, S.K. 2002. Frequency and voltage effects on enhanced diffusion during Moderate Electric Field (MEF) treament. Innov. Food Sci.& Emerg. Technol. (Accepted for publication).

Sastry, S.K., and Cornelius, B.D. 2002. Aseptic Processing of Foods Containing Solid Particulates. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York. 248 pp.