Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering

Dr. Sudhir K. Sastry

Faculty Appointment
Education
Research Areas
Experience
Honors and Awards
Professional Societies
Selected Recent Publications
Comments and Suggestions
Contact Information

Faculty Appointment

Position
Professor

Department
Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

Co-director, Center for Advanced Processing and Packaging Studies (CAPPS)

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Education

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

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Research Areas

Transport phenomena in food process engineering
Mathematical modeling of processes
Continuous sterilization (aseptic processing) of solid-liquid mixtures
Ohmic heating
Pulsed electric field processing

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Experience

Sept. 1987 - present: Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sept. 1980 - Aug. 1987: Assistant/Associate Professor, Departments of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University

Oct. 1997- Sept. 1998. Visiting Scientist, Nestlé R & D Center Connecticut, and Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne,

Switzerland (sabbatical leave).

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Honors and Awards

1997 College of Engineering Lumley Research Award. http://www-fst.ag.ohio-state.edu/Awards/sastry.htm
Research and Development Award, Institute of Food Technologists, 1997, for a significant development in the understanding of food science and technology.
Lumley Research Award, Ohio State University College of Engineering, 1997, for outstanding research performance.
Departmental Research Awards, 1996, from the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University.
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.
Sigma Xi (Scientific Research), Tau Beta Pi (Engineering), Gamma Sigma Delta (Agriculture), Alpha Epsilon (Agricultural Engineering).

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Professional Societies

Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

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Professional Activities

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)
Chair, Food Engineering Division, IFT, Sept. 1995-96.

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Selected Recent Publications

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. 20(6):499-516.

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.
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.
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.
Barringer, S.A., Safiul Azam, A. T. M., Heskitt ,B., and Sastry, S. 1998. On-line prediction of Bostwick consistency from pressure differential for ketchup and related tomato products. J. Food Proc. Pres. 22(3):211-220.
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.