Sugar Technology Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Open Elective-2)

Sugar Technology detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CH662), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

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Course Objectives:

The students will be able to

1. Understand scenario of Indiansugar industry.
2. Acquaint with raw material characteristics, physical and chemical properties.
3. Learn methods and analyze products and byproducts.

Module 1
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Module 2

Evaporation: Evaporation of sugar juice. Heat transfer in evaporators. Evaporation equipment and auxiliaries. Evaporation(Contd..): Methods of obtaining steam, and quality of steam. Steam economy. Chemistry of the evaporation process.

Module 3

Crystallography: Solubility of sucrose. Nucleation in super saturated solutions-kinetics and growth of crystallization. Chemistry of crystallization. Control methods and equipment in sugar crystallization, technology of sugar crystallization. Evaporation and circulation in vacuum pans.

Module 4
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Module 5

Centrifugation: Engineering principles of sugar centrifugal and the centrifugal equipment and auxiliaries. Production of final molasses and molasses’s utilization. Grading of sugar.

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply the fundamentals in production of sugar.
2. Evaluate the yield of the sugar based on different raw materials.
3. Grade sugar and byproducts.

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
• There will be 2 full questions(with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):

1. Critical thinking
2. Problem solving
3. Use of modern tools
4. Life – long learning
5. Collaborative and multidisciplinary work

Text Books:

1. Principles of Sugar Technology, Honing P., Vol.I to III, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1953.
2. Introduction to Cane Sugar Technology, Jenkinos. G.H, Elsevier, 1966.

Reference Books:

1. Handbook of Cane Sugar Technology, Mathur R.B.L, 2ndedn, Oxfordand I.B.H. Publishing Co., 1997.
2. Handbook of Sugars, Pancoast H.M, and Junk, W.R., 2nd, AVI Publishing Co. Inc., Connecticut, 1981.

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