Glass Wood and Metal Processing and Packaging detailed syllabus for Food Technology (Food Tech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Food Tech 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 Food Technology 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Food Tech 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to Food Tech Professional Elective-VII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of glass wood and metal processing and packaging is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
Concept and Advanced Processing of Glass Packaging Bottle glass, Sheet glass, Glass Containers, Other glasses, Annealing, Thermal treatment, Chemical treatment, Production control & planning- Bottle Forming Process & Designs. Quality control & testing of finished glass bottles -uSp Types of Glass ad Properties and its applications and testing.
Unit III
METAL CONTAINERS
Metals in Packaging & their properties – Aluminium based: Conversion processes for Sheets -Aluminium Foil, properties & their applications. Aluminium cans/ Containers: Impact extruded containers. Collapsible tubes, definitions, manufacture – materials. Closing and sealing, annealing, internal coating, marking – decorating, sizes, dimensions, descriptions, nozzles, caps. Decoration, printing of metal containers
Unit IV
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Unit V
WOODEN CONTAINERS
Classification of wood species identification, quality control in wood. Properties of wood, preservation of timber, principles of construction of box and crates, styles of box and crates, choice of thickness, width of planks, battens. Nails-types of nails, skid base and sill base packages, reinforcements, reinforcements, determining cross section of skids. Formulae for calculating thickness of sides, tops and bottom of nailed boxes. Case closures – captive screw closures, palm bolts, strap bolts. Plywood containers: Wire bound boxes, large frame wooden cases, wooden casks, Wooden based Packaging, Pallet and Palletization.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would have the knowledge to
- Develop food packaging designs in Glass and the technologies used in packaging industries.
- Aware about the latest technologies in glass, design packaging of foods in relation to laws and regulations
- Understand basic concepts of metals in packaging and their characteristics.
- Improved knowledge in wood and glass materials adoption in food industry.
Text Books:
- Glasses and the Vitreous State – J. Zarzycki
- Handbook of Glasses – R. H. Doremus
- Handbook of Glass Manufacture – F.V. Tooley
- Handbook of Glass Properties – G. W. Morey.
- J. F. Hanlon, Handbook of Package Engineering, CRC Press
- F. A. Paine, The Packaging User’s Handbook, Springer
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Food Technology 6th Sem, visit Food Tech 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Food Technology results, visit Anna University Food Tech all semester results direct link.