Unit Operations in Agricultural Processing detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 3rd Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of unit operations in agricultural processing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
EVAPORATION AND CONCENTRATION 6 Unit operations in food processing -conservation of mass and energy – overall view of an engineering process-dimensions and units – dimensional and unit consistency – dimensionless ratios-evaporation – definition – liquid characteristics – single and multiple effect evaporationperformance of evaporators and boiling point elevation – capacity – economy and heat balancetypes of evaporators – once through and circulation evaporators – short tube evaporators and long tube evaporators – agitated film evaporator
Unit II
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Unit III
SIZE REDUCTION 6 Size reduction – grinding and cutting – principles of comminuting – characteristics of comminuted products – particle size distribution in comminuted products-energy and power requirements in comminuting – crushing efficiency – Rittingers, Bonds and Kicks laws for crushing-size reduction equipment – crushers – jaw crusher, gyratory crusher-crushing rolls – grinders – hammer mills -rolling compression mills – attrition, rod, ball and tube mills – construction and operation.
Unit IV
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Unit V
CRYSTALLISATION AND DISTILLATION 6 Crystallization-Equilibrium -Rate of crystal growth stage-Equilibrium crystallization-Crystallizers-Equipment-Classification- Construction and operation – Crystallizers-Tank-Agitated batch-Swenson-Walker and Vacuum crystallizers-Distillation-Binary mixtures-Flash and differential distillation-Steam distillation -Theory-Continuous distillation with rectification -Vacuum distillation -Batch distillation-Operation and process-Advantages and limitation-Distillation equipmentConstruction and operation-Factors influencing the operation.
Practical
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Text Books:
- Earle, R.L., Unit operations in Food Processing, Pergamon Press, Oxford, U.K, 1985.
- McCabe, W.L., and Smith, J.C., Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, Mc-Graw-Hill Inc., Kosaido Printing Ltd., Tokyo, 1990.
- Geankoplis, C.J. Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Reference Books:
- Coulson, J.M and J.F. Richardson. Chemical Engineering. Volume I to V. The Pergamon Press. New York, 1999.
- Albert Ibarz and Gustavo V. Barbosa-Canovas. Unit Operations in Food Engineering. CRC Press LLC, Florida, 2003..
Course Outcomes:
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