AKTU Storage Engineering and Handling of Agricultural Produce (HTPF801) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Process & Food Engineering
Storage Engineering and Handling of Agricultural Produce HTPF801
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Syllabus — Storage Engineering and Handling of Agricultural Produce
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| Pre-requisites (if any) | Basic knowledge of storage engineering and material handling. |
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
| CO 1 | Understand grain storage, biochemical changes, production, distribution, storage capacity estimate models, ecology, factors affecting losses, and storage requirements. | K3 |
| CO 2 | Understand bag/bulk storage, godowns, bins, silos, rat-proofing, rodent control, stacking methods, preventive measures, bioengineering properties, and structural/thermal design. | K2 & K3 |
| CO 3 | Familiar with grain markets, cold storage, controlled/modified atmosphere storage, effects of gases, irradiation, storage of dehydrated products, food spoilage, preservation, and BIS standards. | K2 |
| CO 4 | Understand physical factors affecting flow, analyze the mechanics of bulk solids, flow through hoppers, openings, ducts, and analyze the procedure of estimating angle of repose, coefficient of internal friction and coefficient of external friction. | K2 & K4 |
| CO 5 | Understand belt, chain, screw, roller, pneumatic conveyors, bucket elevators, fluidization principles, and recent advances in handling food materials. | K2 |
K1- Remember, K2- Understand, K3- Apply, K4- Analyze, K5-Evaulate, K6- Create Storage of grains, biochemical changes during storage, production, distribution and storage capacity estimate models, storage capacity models, ecology, storage factors affecting losses, storage requirements.
Bag and bulk storage, godowns, bins and silos, rat proof godowns and rodent control, method of stacking, preventive method, bio-engineering properties of stored products, function, structural and thermal design of structures, aeration system.
Grain markets, cold storage, controlled and modified atmosphere storage, effects of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide on storage of durable and perishable commodities, irradiation, storage of dehydrated products, food spoilage and preservation, BIS standards.
Physical factors influencing flow characteristics, mechanics of bulk solids, flow through hoppers, openings and ducts; Determination of angle of repose, coefficient of internal friction and coefficient of external friction.
Design of belt, chain, screw, roller, pneumatic conveyors and bucket elevators, principles of fluidization, recent advances in handling of food materials.
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