Food engineering consulting for today's food manufacturer

With over 20 years focused in various segments of the total life cycle of beverage manufacturing, Phinney Consulting can support everything from first transformation agricultural product conversion, to finished beverage production, distribution, and use in the field. With an engineering focus, we can take what the commercial team demands to deliver to the market, and translate that into: tanks, pipes, pumps, pasteurizers, filters, fillers, boilers, chillers, doors, floors, and more. Expert knowledge in capital project management focused on asset acquisition, installation, commissioning, and optimization. Handed knowledge in the blending, processing, and filling of ingredients to create customized beverage solutions, as well as the class and division demands in explosion proof flavor production.


Here to help you with

Optimizing cleaning and sanitation 

Food and Pharmaceutical wastewater

Aseptic processing and packaging

End to end product/process design

Reliability in manufacturing 

Automation optimization 

P&ID evaluations and process calculation



Bag in box manufacturing

Publications

Engineering Cleaning Considerations for Cleaning and Disinfection in the Food Industry

K Goode, D Phinney, A Hasting, P Fryer

Handbook of Food Engineering



Effectiveness of rinse water during in‐place cleaning of stainless steel pipe lines

M Fan, DM Phinney, DR Heldman

Journal of food science 80 (7), E1490-E1497


All treatment parameters affect environmental surface sanitation efficacy, but their relative importance depends on the microbial target

S Cai, DM Phinney, DR Heldman, AB Snyder

Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87 (1), e01748-20


Discard intentions are lower for milk presented in containers without date labels

BE Roe, DM Phinney, CT Simons, AS Badiger, KE Bender, DR Heldman

Food quality and preference 66, 13-18


Effect of Freezing Rate and Microwave Thawing on Texture and Microstructural Properties of Potato (Solanum tuberosum)

DM Phinney, JC Frelka, A Wickramasinghe, DR Heldman

Journal of Food Science 82 (4), 933-938


All treatment parameters affect environmental surface sanitation efficacy, but their relative importance depends on the microbial target

S Cai, DM Phinney, DR Heldman, AB Snyder

Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87 (1), e01748-20


Modeling high protein liquid beverage fouling during pilot scale ultra-high temperature (UHT) processing

DM Phinney, A Feldman, D Heldman

Food and Bioproducts Processing 106, 43-52


Prediction of liquid specific heat capacity of food lipids

X Zhu, DM Phinney, S Paluri, DR Heldman

Journal of food science 83 (4), 992-997




Recent advances in thermophysical properties—Measurements, prediction, and importance

S Paluri, DM Phinney, DR Heldman

Current Opinion in Food Science 23, 142-148




Composition‐based prediction of temperature‐dependent thermophysical food properties: Reevaluating component groups and prediction models

DM Phinney, JC Frelka, DR Heldman

Journal of food science 82 (1), 6-15


Assessment of chicken breast meat quality after freeze/thaw abuse using magnetic resonance imaging techniques

JC Frelka, DM Phinney, X Yang, MV Knopp, DR Heldman, MP Wick, ...

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 99 (2), 844-853


Effect of solvent addition sequence on lycopene extraction efficiency from membrane neutralized caustic peeled tomato waste

DM Phinney, JC Frelka, JL Cooperstone, SJ Schwartz, DR Heldman

Food chemistry 215, 354-361


Identification of residual nano-scale foulant material on stainless steel using atomic force microscopy after clean in place

DM Phinney, KR Goode, PJ Fryer, D Heldman, S Bakalis

Journal of Food Engineering 214, 236-244


Management of waste streams from dairy manufacturing operations using membrane filtration and dissolved air flotation

S Nagappan, DM Phinney, DR Heldman

Applied Sciences 8 (12), 2694



Reverse stability kinetics of meat pigment oxidation in aqueous extract from fresh beef

JC Frelka, DM Phinney, MP Wick, DR Heldman

Journal of food science 82 (12), 2910-2914


Modelling the chemical free neutralization of caustic peeled tomato slurry as a continuously stirred tank

DM Phinney, JC Frelka, DR Heldman

Food and Bioproducts Processing 100, 545-550