Food Engineering Operations - I
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The official GTU curriculum for Food Engineering Operations - I (subject code 2151404) as prescribed for Food Proc. · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 56 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 (2151404)Unit 1 Introduction
- Structure and composition of food grains
- Engineering properties of agricultural materials
- Physical properties
- Mechanical properties
- Thermal properties
- Rheological properties
Unit 2 Cleaning, Grading and Separation
- Types of screens
- Revolving screen
- Shaking screen
- Rotary screen
- Vibratory screen
- Horizontal screen
- Perforated metal screen
- Wire-mesh screen
- Ideal and actual screen
- Effectiveness of screen
- Airscreen cleaners
- Screen analysis
- Fineness modules
- Crushing efficiency
- Size reduction procedures
- Grading- Size grading
- Colour grading
- Specific gravity grading
- Magnetic separation
- Energy requirements in size reduction
Unit 3 Heat and Mass Transfer
- Heat Transfer: Law of conduction
- Steady and unsteady state conduction
- Natural convection
- Forced convection in laminar and turbulent flow
- Emission of radiation
- Combined heat transfer by conduction
- Convection and radiation
- Mass transfer: Theory of diffusion
- Prediction of diffusivities
- Mass transfer theories- Film theory
- Boundary layer theory
- Two film theory
- Mass transfer coefficients
- Transport phenomena
- Finite element techniques and molecular transport in gas, Solids and liquid
Unit 4 Storage
- Direct damages
- Indirect damages
- Sources of infestation
- Traditional storage structures
- Improved storage structures
- Modern storage structures
- Storage of agricultural perishables
- Controlled and modified atmospheric storage
- Sources of infestation and control
Unit 5 Material Handling
- Belt conveyors
- Belt tension
- Bucket Elevator
- Screw conveyor
- Drive mechanism
- Pneumatic and hydraulic conveying systems
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