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ACKNOWELEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my thanks to my committee members (Dr. John Haddock, Dr. Amer Dr.Watson) for their support throughout my period of study. I am thankful to Dr. Choudhary for his constant support, encouragement, opportunities and his patience in guiding me. He has been a great mentor, senior, guardian and friend throughout the period of my degree. Thanks to Dr. Mohanty for providing me peristaltic pump. Thanks to Dr.Kantartzi for providing me soy beans. I also thank Dr. Bhattacharya for helping me in statistical design and analysis of my results. I would like to thank Dr.Haddock for allowing me to work in his lab and for his guidance which was very helpful throughout my study in the area of microbiology apart from serving as a committee member. I also thank Dr.Amer for helping me in ordering all the supplies for my study using his account apart from serving as a committee. I would like to thank Dr.Amer and Chet stemuke (SIUC Dairy Farm) for providing milk throughout my study. I want to express my thanks to Arosha for his support in the lab. I would like to thank Dr.Padmanaban Krishnan for teaching me about discipline. I would like to express my thanks to Dr.Lloyd Metzger and his lab for giving me an opportunity to analyze dairy products as a student worker in his laboratory. I would like to thank Dr.Krishnamurthy and Dr.Matak whose theses are very helpful. I want to express my thanks to Dr.Koutchama and Dr.Franz for their research in the area of apple juice using dean flow UV reactors. Their information is so helpful for me to work with milk using dean flow UV reactors. Thanks to Dr.Rakesh Singh for clearing my doubts about soymilk before starting my research. I would like to specially thank Aaron Schiendier (Cole-parmer product application supervisor) who gave complete assistance about tube fittings. Thanks for his support throughout my study. I would like express thank Chad Morris (Sales representative- American Ultraviolet Company) for his assistance about UV bulb and quartz glass sleeve. I would like to thanks Dr. Preece and Lisa Hartline who helped me in the admission process. I also thank Dr.Klubek and faculty of the plant, soil and agricultural systems department for helping me in the process of transfer of my credits from SDSU. I would like to thank Patti Deskines for helping and informing me about project supplies and other things. I would like to thank my friends Gopi, Pradeep, Ramesh, Matthew and Tarani for their help in engineering drawing I would like to express gratitude my family constituents for their blessings, support and everything which I have accomplished till now (Parents, Sister, Brother and Brother-in-law). I powerfully accept as factual that without their blessings it would not have been likely for me to arrive at this stage and feels appreciative for their unrelenting love and encouragement. They decisively made my desires arrive true. Special thanks proceed to my undergrad associates and my associates in India for their ...