AKTU Post Harvest Engineering of Cereals, Pulses & Oil Seeds (BAG501) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech 3rd Year
Post Harvest Engineering of Cereals, Pulses & Oil Seeds BAG501
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Syllabus — Post Harvest Engineering of Cereals, Pulses & Oil Seeds
Download PDFBAG501 · 4 credits · L-T-P 3-1-0
| Scheme and Credits | L-T-P | Theory Marks Test Assig/Att. | Sessional | Total | Credit |
| 3-1-0 | 100 | 30 | 20 | 150 | 4 |
| Pre-requisites (if any) | Basic knowledge of mathematics, physics of secondary level and engineering properties of biological materials. |
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
| CO 1 | Know the different unit operations in processing of major cereals, pulses and oilseeds. | K 2 |
| CO 2 | Understand about various Size separators, Size reduction machinery and conveyors. | K 2, |
| CO 3 | Apply the various unit operations in Legumes and Oilseeds Processing | K & K 2 3 |
| CO 4 | Apply the various unit operations in processing of Wheat. | K & K 2 3 |
| CO 5 | Apply the various unit operations in processing of Paddy and Corn. | K & K 2 3 |
K - Remember, K - Understand, K - Apply, K - Analyze, K -Evaulate, K - Create
Course Content
Introduction to Food Grains: structure and chemical composition of cereals, pulses and oilseeds.
Applications of unit operations and principles in cleaning and grading, aspiration, scalping, Drying: moisture and its removal, utilities, M.C. determination methods: direct and indirect methods, EMC: its importance, Determination methods, EMC models, Hysteresis effects, Psychrometric chart. Drying methods: Traditional &Mechanical drying, Thin layer drying, Deep bed drying, Drying rate periods. Principles and operation of different types of dryers.
Size separators, screens, sieve analysis, capacity and effectiveness of screens. Various types of separators: specific gravity, magnetic, disc, spiral, pneumatic, inclined draper, velvet roll, colour sorters, cyclone, shape graders. Size reduction: principle, Bond’s law, Kick’s law, Rittinger’s law, procedure (crushing, impact, cutting and shearing), and Size reduction machinery: Jaw crusher, Hammer mill, Plate mill, Ball mill.
Material handling equipment. Types of conveyors: Belt, roller, chain and screw. Elevators: bucket, Cranes, Pneumatic conveying.
Legumes Processing: Pretreatment of pulses for milling, Methods of milling of pulses, Factors affecting milling of pulses, Pulse based processed products. Oilseeds Processing for Oil Extraction: Preparation of oilseeds, Mechanical and Solvent extraction methods of oil extraction, Oil refining, hydrogenation, Utilization of de-oiled cake.
Processing of Wheat: Structure of wheat grain, Wheat milling- basic concepts, products and by-products, Flour milling, Turbo grinding and air-classification, Flour grades and their suitability for baking purposes.
Paddy milling: Milling of Paddy- basic concepts, traditional and modern methods of milling, Parboiling techniques. Corn milling: Dry and wet milling of corn, corn starch and its conversion products. [BAG551] POST HARVEST ENGINEERING OF CEREALS, PULSES & OIL SEEDS LAB (0-0-2)
- Performance evaluation of different types of cleaners and separators.
- Determination of separation efficiency,
- Study of different size reduction machines and performance evaluation,
- Determination of fineness modulus and uniformity index.
- Study of different types of mixers.
- Measurement of moisture content: dry basis and wet basis,
- Study on drying characteristics of grains and determination of drying constant,
- Determination of EMC (Static and dynamic method),
- Type of process flow charts with examples relating to processing of cereals pulses and oil seeds,
- Study of different types of conveying and elevating equipments.
- Visit to grain processing industries. LAB OUTCOMES: By the end of the course the students should be able to-
- Determine the drying characteristics of different food grains with an understanding to control the drying process for retaining the quality of produce.
- Find out the fineness modulus and uniformity index of ground materials and separation effectiveness of different separators and graders
- Develop the skill of operating and monitoring the different grain processing machines.
- Prepare process charts for different grain processing operations.
- Chakraverty, A. Post Harvest Technology of cereals, pulses and oilseeds. Oxford & IBH publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
- Dash, S.K., Bebartta, J.P. and Kar, A. Rice Processing and Allied Operations. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
- Sahay, K.M. and Singh, K.K. 1994. Unit operations of Agricultural Processing. Vikas Publishing house Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
- Geankoplis C. J. Transport processes and unit operations, Prentice Hall of India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi
- Earle, R.L. 2003. Unit Operations in Food Processing. Pergamon Press. Oxford. U.K.
- Henderson, S.M., and Perry, R. L. Agricultural Process Engineering, Chapman and hall, London
- McCabe, W.L., Smith J.C. and Harriott, P. Unit operations of Chemical Engineering. McGraw Hill.
- Singh, R. Paul. and Heldman, R.Dennis. 2004. Introduction to Food Engineering. 3rd Edition. Academic Press, London.
- Corn: Chemistry and Technology by Watson SA & Ramstad PE., AACC
- Manuals on Rice and its processing by CFTRI Mysore and IIT Kharagpur.
- Cereal Technology by Potter NN. AVI Publication. Bakery Science & Cereal Technology by NeelamKhatarpaul, Rajbala Grewal &SudeshJood (Daya publishing house).
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