1. The Physical and Chemical Effects of Ultrasound Sandra Kentish and Muthupandian Ashokkumar 2. Acoustic Cavitation Olivier Louisnard and Jose Gonzalez-Garcia 3. Ultrasound Applications in Food Processing Daniela Bermudez-Aguirre, Tamara Mobbs and Gustavo V. Barbosa-Canovas 4. The thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of power ultrasound processes Hao Feng 5. Wideband multi-frequency, multimode, and modulated (MMM) ultrasonic technology Miodrag Prokic 6. Application of Hydrodynamic Cavitation for Food and Bioprocessing Parag R. Gogate 7. Contamination-Free Sonoreactor for the Food Industry Jean-Luc Dion 8. Controlled Cavitation for Scale Free Heating, Gum Hydration and Emulsification in Food and Consumer Products Paul Milly, Douglas Mancosky 9. Ultrasonic Cutting of Foods Yvonne Schneider, Susann Zahn, Harald Rohm 10. Engineering Food Ingredients with High Intensity Ultrasound Jochen Weiss, Kristberg Kristbergsson, and Gunnar Thor Kjartansson 11. Manothermosonication for microbial inactivation Santiago Condon, Pilar Manas and Guillermo Cebrian 12. Inactivation of Microorganisms Stella M. Alzamora, Sandra N. Guerrero, Marcela Schenk, Silvia Raffellini, Aurelio Lopez-Malo 13. Ultrasound Recovery and Modification of Food Ingredients Kamaljit Vilkhu, Richard Manasseh, Raymond Mawson and Muthupandian Ashokkumar 14. Ultrasound in Enzyme Activation and Inactivation Raymond Mawson, Mala Gamage, Netsanet Shiferaw Terefe , Kai Knoerzer 15. Production of Nanomaterials Using Ultrasonic Cavitation Manickam Sivakumar and Rana Rohit Kumar 16. Power Ultrasound to process dairy products Daniela Bermudez-Aguirre and Gustavo V. Barbosa-Canovas 17. Sonocrystallization and its application in food and bioprocessing Parag R. Gogate and Aniruddha B. Pandit 18. Ultrasound-Assisted Freezing A.E. Delgado and Da-Wen Sun 19. Ultrasound-Assisted Hot Air Drying of Foods Enrique Riera, Anthony Mulet, Jose Vincente Garcia Perez, Juan Carcel Carrion 20. Novel Applications of High Power Ultrasonic Spray for Food Seasoning Ke-ming Quan 21. High Power Ultrasound in Surface Cleaning and Decontamination Sami B. Awad 22. Effect of Power Ultrasound on Food Quality Hyoungill Lee and Hao Feng 23. Ultrasonic Membrane Processing Sandra Kentish and Muthupandian Ashokkumar 24. Industrial Applications of High Power Ultrasonics Alex Patist and Darren Bates 25. Technologies and Applications of Airborne Power Ultrasound in Food Processing Juan A. Gallego-Juarez, Enrique Riera