Dense Phase Carbon Dioxide: Food and Pharmaceutical Applications

Murat O Balaban, PhD is Professor of Food Processing and Engineering in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Current research areas include food processing and engineering with emphasis on supercritical fluid technology; mathematical modeling and computer vision applications, thermal processing and reaction kinetics; ohmic thawing; and seafood processing and technology. Dr. Balaban holds five US patents, including one for the inactivation of enzymes in foods with pressurized CO2 and another for the method and apparatus for continuous flow reduction of microbial and/or enzymatic activity in a liquid beer product using carbon dioxide.