Cost and safety issues of emerging technologies against conventional techniques

Abstract

Not only the product yield of the different technologies, but also scale-up boundaries, product safety, and overall cost govern the industrialization of recovery processing. Improved process efficiency is considered in terms of cost minimization via reducing processing steps and restricting overall energy consumption. The emerging nonthermal technologies promise to overcome the obstacles of conventional techniques with regard to the energy requirements, but in some cases, this has not been achievable yet. At the current chapter, an attempt to clarify cost issues of conventional and emerging technologies is conducted. Moreover, other aspects such as safety issues are discussed, since the facilitation of healthy food additives production is a constant need. An emphasis was given on emerging techniques, since most of them were more effective and exhibited less safety issues.