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Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Food Process engineering has become an important branch of applied engineering. Since post harvest processing is gaining impetus in our country, concepts ofbasic food structures and their processing are essential. Enormity of foodswith their diverse as well as specific unique characteristics demands special processing treatments. At the same time being biological commodities, their processing needs to meet the safety requirements as well. This course has been designed to impart the fundamental concepts of Food rheology, as well as thermal/non-thermal processing of foods. Drying being the most common technique followed for food preservation, a detailed discussion on drying has been incorporated. Food freezing has been covered and finally few important unit operationsof food engineering are discussed. A glimpse of non-thermal processing (High pressure processing, Pulsed electric field etc.) has also been included in the courses.

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INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Agricultural Engineering, Dairy Process Engineering, Food Process Engineering

CORE/ELECTIVE: Core

UG/PG: UG

PREREQUISITES: NIL

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Any Industry deals with food processing such as Hindustan Lever, ITC, Britannia, PepsiCo, Amul etc.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:



Dr. Jayeeta Mitra is working as Assistant Professor in AGFE Dept., IIT Kharagpur Since 2014. Prior to this, she has worked as Assistant Professor in Centre of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Food Process Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Rourkela. She has studied B Tech in Agril. Engg from BCKV, Mohanpur; Masters in Process and Food Engineering Pantnagar, Uttarakhand and obtained her Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur. She has worked in drying for few years. She is currently working on Food Processing, Packaging and storage. She is member of AFST (I), ISAE and ASABE. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal JPTR, Springer.

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :    Concept of Food Rheology and its Measurements
Week 2  :    Viscoelastic foods
Week 3  :   Thermal processing and microbial death kinetics  
Week 4  :    Evaporation and concentration
Week 5  :    Heat Exchangers
Week 6  :    Drying Technology
Week 7  :    Freezing and Freeze Drying  
Week 8  :   Size Reduction
Week 9  :    Mechanical Separation Techniques
Week 10  :  Mixing and agitation
Week 11  :  Leaching and Extraction
Week 12  :  Non Thermal Processing

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

1)Fundamental of Food Process Engineeringby  R T Toledo, 2ndEd, 2000, CBS Publishers.

2)Transport Process and Unit Operations by Christie. J Geankoplis,  1999,Prentice-Hall International. Inc.

3)Food Process Engineering, D.R. Heldman and R.P.Singh. Springer, 1981 edition 

4)Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering. By McCabe & J CSmith, 1999. McGraw Hill.

5)Engineering Properties of Foods:MA Rao &SSH Rizvi, 1986, Marcel Dekkar Inc.

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering. By J M Coulson &J F Richardson,1999,McGraw-Hill Book Co.,  ThePergamon Press 
CERTIFiCATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exam: October 28, 2018 (Sunday): 
  • Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
  • Exam for this Course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

CERTIFICATE:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 8 out of 12 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur.It will be e-verifiable at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/