Size reduction. Zeki Berk, in Food Process Engineering and Technology, 2009. 6.3.3 Energy consumption. As a rule, size reduction operations are heavy in energy consumption (Loncin and Merson, 1979; Hassanpour et al., 2004).As an example, the cost of energy is the single largest item in the total cost of wheat milling. Milling of one bushel (approx. 27 kg) of …Web