UNIT 1:
Unit operations in food processing, Conservation of mass and energy
Evaporation of heat sensitive materials
Capacity – Economy and Heat balance
Unit operations in food processing, Conservation of mass and energy
Performance of Evaporators and Boiling point elevation
UNIT 2:
Rate of separations – liquid-liquid separation – Centrifuge equipment
Filtration – definition –filter media
Stoke’s law, sedimentation of particles in gas- cyclones
Filtration – definition –filter media
Filtration – definition –filter media
Filter cake resistance-Filtration equipment
Stoke’s law, sedimentation of particles in gas- cyclones
Settling under sedimentation and Gravitational sedimentation-Centrifugal separations
Rate of separations – liquid-liquid separation – Centrifuge equipment
Filtration – definition –filter media
Gravitational sedimentation of particles in a fluid
Stoke’s law, sedimentation of particles in gas- cyclones
Rate of separations – liquid-liquid separation – Centrifuge equipment
UNIT 3:
Size reduction – grinding and cutting size reduction – grinding and cutting
Rittinger’s, Bond’s and Kick’s laws for crushing-size reduction equipments
Particle size distribution in comminuted products
Crushers – jaw crusher, gyratory crusher- crushing rolls – grinders – hammer mill
Size reduction – grinding and cutting size reduction – grinding and cutting
Principles of comminuting
Rittinger’s, Bond’s and Kick’s laws for crushing-size reduction equipments
Rolling compression mills - attrition, rod, ball and tube mills – construction and operation
Crushers – jaw crusher, gyratory crusher- crushing rolls – grinders – hammer mill
UNIT 4:
Equipment for leaching coarse solid
Contact equilibrium separation processes
Gas absorption – rate of gas absorption
Stage – equilibrium gas absorption and equipment
Properties of tower packing – types – construction – flow through packed towers
Contact equilibrium separation processes
UNIT 5:
Crystallization – equilibrium
Flash and differential distillation
