Zaida Yusof
An investigation of liquid coating mechanisms via contact spreading in a different coating system​

February 2015 - February 2019

BIOGRAPHY

I was born in Malaysia. I enrolled my undergraduate study in Bioprocess & Chemical Engineering at Hiroshima University, Japan in 2004 and graduated in 2008. I was then employed at the University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia as a Tutor. During this time, I took study leave for two years and received my Master’s degree in Food Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia in 2013.

RESEARCH

My research involved investigating particle coating, which is one of the main techniques used in the food industry. The fundamental mechanisms of liquid-particle contract spreading in a tumbling drum were investigated, as well as the coating mechanism in a fluidised bed coater. This project was in collaboration with Procter & Gamble. ​

PUBLICATIONS

• Yusof, N., Muhammad , K., Mohd Adzahan , N. and  Matanjun, P. 2013. Functional Properties of Spray-Dried White Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus Undatus) Juice. Acta Hort. (ISHS). 1012, 1451-14.

CONFERENCES

• IFPRI AGM, John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK, 2018.
• PGR Summer Conference, University of Sheffield, UK, 2017. 
• Joint IFPRI Robert Pfeffer symposium and UK Particle Technology Forum, University of Surrey, UK, 2016.
• AIChE Annual Meeting Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2016. 
• 7th International Postharvest Symposium 2012 (IPS 2012) at Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2012. 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• ​Yusof, N.B., Pitt, K.E., Smith, R.M. (2018). An investigation of particle coating behaviour via contact spreading in a small scale fluidised bed coating system. IFPRI AGM, John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
• Yusof, N.B., Pitt, K.E., Green, J., Campbell, A.I., Ahmadian, H., Gupta, P., Greener, S., Smith, R.M. (2017). A novel method for the analysis of particle coating behaviour via contact spreading in a tumbling drum. PGR Summer Conference. 
• Yusof, N.B., Pitt, K.E., Green, J., Campbell, A.I., Ahmadian, H., Gupta, P., Greener, S., Smith, R.M. (2016). A novel method for the analysis of particle coating behaviour via contact spreading in a tumbling drum. Joint IFPRI Robert Pfeffer symposium and UK Particle Technology Forum. 
• Yusof, N.B., Pitt, K.E., Green, J., Campbell, A.I., Ahmadian, H., Gupta, P., Greener, S., Smith, R.M. (2016). A novel method for the analysis of particle coating behaviour via contact spreading in a tumbling drum. AIChE Annual Meeting Conference.