Engineering Properties of Biological Materials
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The official GTU curriculum for Engineering Properties of Biological Materials (subject code BE03051041) as prescribed for Food Engg. · Semester 3 divides the course into 6 units, covering 29 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE03051041)Unit 1 Introduction
- Classification and importance of engineering properties of Agricultural Produce
Unit 2 Physical properties
- specific gravity
- surface area of grains
- fruits and vegetables
Unit 3 Thermal properties
- Heat capacity
- Specific heat
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal diffusivity
- Heat of respiration
- Co-efficient of thermal expansion
Unit 4 Frictional and Aerodynamic properties
- Static friction
- Kinetic friction
- rolling resistance
- angle of internal friction
- angle of repose
- Flow of bulk granular materials
- Aero dynamics of agricultural products
- drag coefficients
- terminal velocity
Unit 5 Rheological properties
- plastic and viscous behaviour
- Newtonian and Non-Newtonian liquid
- Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluid
- Rheopectic and Bingham Plastic Foods
- Flow curves
Unit 6 Electrical properties
- Dielectric loss factor
- loss tangent
- A.C. conductivity and dielectric constant
- method of determination
- Application of engineering properties in handling processing machines and storage structures
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