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Food Processing Technologies HTPF501

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Official AKTU syllabus of Food Processing Technologies (HTPF501) for B.Tech Honors Degree in Process & Food Engineering – 4 credits, L-T-P 3-1-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.

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HTPF501 · 4 credits · L-T-P 3-1-0

Pre-requisites (if any)Basic knowledge of drying & storage and crop processing.

Course Outcomes

Course Outcomes

Course Outcomes

CO 1Understand mixing, homogenization principles, solid/liquid mixing, types of mixers, and homogenization for solids, liquids, pastes. Understand emulsification principles and equipment.K2
CO 2Understand novel dehydration technologies: osmotic dehydration, foam mat drying, puff drying, freeze drying, microwave drying, and extrusion theory, equipment, applications.K2
CO 3Understand non-thermal processing principles, equipment for ohmic heating, pulsed electric field preservation, hydrostatic pressure, ultrasonic technology, irradiation, nanotechnology, and their effects. Also able to analyze reverse osmosis technique.K2 & K4
CO 4Understand distillation, leaching, extraction principles, equipment for distillation, crystallization, phase equilibria, multistage calculations, leaching, solvent extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, and near-critical fluid extraction.K2
CO 5Familiar with food plant hygiene, cleaning, sterilizing, waste disposal methods, plant utilities, steam requirements, and HACCP in food processing industries.K2

K1- Remember, K2- Understand, K3- Apply, K4- Analyze, K5-Evaulate, K6- Create Mixing and homogenization; Principles of solid and liquid mixing, types of mixers for solids, liquid and pastes homogenization. Numerical problems on mixing and mixing indices. Emulsification: Principles and equipments.

Novel dehydration technologies; Osmotic dehydration, foam mat drying, puff drying, freeze drying, microwave drying, dehumidified air drying. Extrusion: Theory, equipment, applications.

Non-thermal processing; Principles and equipment involved in ohmic heating, pulsed electric field preservation, hydrostatic pressure technique (vacuum processing, high pressure processing of Foods), ultrasonic technology, irradiation, quality changes and effects on microorganisms, nanotechnology in food processing. Experimental procedure of reverse osmosis technique.

Distillation, leaching and extraction: Principles and equipment for distillation, crystallization, phase equilibria, multistage calculations, leaching principles and equipment, solvent extraction, super-critical fluid extraction, near critical fluid extraction: Equipment and experimental techniques used in NCF extraction and industrial application, advanced methods for extraction of food components and aroma recovery.

Food plant hygiene; Cleaning, sterilizing, waste disposal methods, Food processing plant utilities, steam requirements in food processing, HACCP in food processing industries.

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  • Fellows P. 1988. Food Processing Technology: Principle and Practice. VCH Publisher.
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  • Singh RP and Heldman DR 1993. Introduction to Food Engineering. Academic Press.
  • Muthukumarappan K and Knoerzer K. 2020. Innovations in Food Processing Technologies: A comprehensive review, 1st ed., Elsevier.
  • Nanda V and Sharma S. 2017. Novel food processing technologies. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India.
  • Suvendu Bhattacharya. 2014. Conventional and Advanced Food Processing Technologies. Wiley Publishing.

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