The research activity of Prof. Mohammad Naghi Eshtiaghi The Name of Laboratories has a major Name: “Novel Food Processing Laboratories” As sub- Laboratory name: 1) Pulsed Electric Field, High Hydrostatic Pressure, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, High voltage Ohmic heating and subcritical fluid Technologies 2) Atmospheric Cold Plasma and Intense Pulsed Light technologies

Novel Food Processing Laboratory Pulsed Electric Field, High Hydrostatic Pressure, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and subcritical fluid Technologies

Novel Food Processing Laboratory Atmospheric Cold Plasma (ACP) and Intense Pulsed Light technologies (IPL)

• The main research activities in our laboratories focused on Food preservation without heating and without chemical preservatives using Pulsed Electric Field, High Hydrostatic Pressure (up to 4000 bars), compressed carbon dioxide, Atmospheric Cold Plasma (surface decontamination), Intensive Pulsed Light (surface decontamination)natural antimicrobials as well as combination of 2 or more of these processes.
• Extraction of food constituents from Thai herbs, fruits, vegetables, animals and microorganisms (yeast) using energy saving and high efficient technologies such as extraction of sugar from sugar cane using Pulsed Electric Field, aroma and essential oil extraction from Thai herbs using Super Critical Carbon Dioxide, Ohmic Heating, Subcritical Fluids and High Hydrostatic Pressure.
• Conversion of agricultural wastes to renewable energy (bio-ethanol and Bio-gasoline) using combined subcritical Fluid pretreatment and enzyme technology.
• Modification of food products and conversion of food wastes to valuable products using High Hydrostatic Pressure.
• Extraction of natural antimicrobials from agricultural wastes using Subcritical Fluids, Super-Critical Carbon Dioxide, Ultrasonic, and Pulsed Electric Field.
• Simultaneous nano natural antimicrobial production using High Pressure Jet Technology (at up to 4000 bars)
• Design and construction of Laboratory, pilot scale and Industrial scale Food Processing equipments such as a) Pulsed Electric Field (up to 30 KW power, 40 KV), b) Subcritical Fluid (up to 50 Liter , 50 bars, 500 °C), c) Supercritical Carbon Dioxide extraction unit (with pressure up to 600 bars), High Voltage Ohmic Heating (up to 10 KV, 10 KW), D) Pilot scale cold plasma equipment for surface decontamination of food surface (fresh fruits, Fish, Bread,..)