Instrumentation for Agriculture and Food Processing
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Instrumentation for Agriculture and Food Processing Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Instrumentation for Agriculture and Food Processing (subject code 2181707) as prescribed for IC · Semester 8 divides the course into 7 units, covering 33 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 (2181707)Unit 1 Necessity of instrumentation & control for agriculture and food processing
- remote sensing
- biosensors in agriculture
- standard for food quality
Unit 2 Soil science and sensors
- Engineering properties of soil pH, conductivity
- soil moisture and salinity
- ion concentration measurement
- method of soil analysis
- Instrumentation for environmental conditioning of seed germination and growth
Unit 3 Flow diagram of sugar plant & instrumentation set up for it,
- flow diagram of fermenter & control (batch process)
- flow diagram of dairy industry & instrumentation set up for it, Juice extraction control process & instrumentation set up for it Oil extraction plant and instrumentation set up for it
- Pesticides manufacturing process and control
Unit 4 Application of SCADA for DAM parameters & control,
- Irrigation canal management up- stream & down - stream control systems
- Water distribution and management control
- Auto drip irrigation systems
Unit 5 Automation in earth moving equipments & farm equipments, 08 16
- application of SCADA & PLC in packing industry and cold storage systems
- implementation of hydraulic
- pneumatic & electronics control circuits in harvesters cotton pickers
- tractor etc
Unit 6 Green houses & instrumentation
- cooling & heating
- wind speed
- temperature & humidity
- rain gauge
- carbon dioxide enrichment measurement & control
- Leaf area length evaportranspiration
- wetness & respiration measurement & data logging
- electromagnetic radiations photosynthesis
- infrared & UV bio sensor methods in agriculture
- agro-metrological instrumentation weather stations
Unit 7 Non-conventional energy sources
- Wind power
- solar power
- tidal power
- smart grid
- energy harvesting
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