Syllabus - Food Plant Equipment Design (AT-802 (D))

Agriculture Technology

Food Plant Equipment Design (AT-802 (D))

VIII-Semester

Raw food materials, harvesting, handling and packaging of food materials.

Unit operations in processing plants, plant layout and its evaluation. Salient features of processing plants for cereals, horticultural crops, poultry and meat products. Guidelines for design and cost analysis of processing plants.

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Ahmed, T. 1997. Dairy Plant Engineering and Management. 4th Ed. Kitab Mahal.

  • Chakraverty, A. and De, D.S. 1981. Post-harvest Technology of Cereals, Pulses and Oilseeds. Oxford & IBH.

  • Gary, Krutz, Lester Thompson and Paul Clear. 1984. Design of Agricultural Machinery. John Wiley & Sons.

  • Hall, C.W. and Davis, D.C. 1979. Processing Equipment for Agricultural Products. AVI Publ.

  • Henderson, S. and Perry, S.M. 1976. Agricultural Process Engineering. 5th Ed. AVI Publ.

  • Johnson, A.J. 1986. Process Control Instrumentation Technology. 2nd Ed. Wiley International & ELBS.

  • Romeo T. Toledo. 1997. Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering. CBS.

  • Slade, F.H. 1967. Food Processing Plant. Vol. I. Leonard Hill Books.

  • Phirke, P.S. 2009. Processing and conveying equipment design. Jain Brothers.

  • Chakraborty, S.K. 2013. Fundamental Food Engineering, Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, ISBN:978-81-8487-334-4.

  • Sahay, K.M., and Singh, K.K. 1994. Unit operations of Agricultural Processing. Vikas publishing house Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.