UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BAG551

Post Harvest Engineering of Cereals, Pulses & Oil Seeds Lab

L-T-P0-0-2 Credits1 Session2024-25 TypeLab / Practical
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Agricultural Engineering · Sem 5 (Lab)

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List of Experiments / Activities

  1. 1Performance evaluation of different types of cleaners and separators.
  2. 2Determination of separation efficiency,
  3. 3Study of different size reduction machines and performance evaluation,
  4. 4Determination of fineness modulus and uniformity index.
  5. 5Study of different types of mixers.
  6. 6Measurement of moisture content: dry basis and wet basis,
  7. 7Study on drying characteristics of grains and determination of drying constant,
  8. 8Determination of EMC (Static and dynamic method),
  9. 9Type of process flow charts with examples relating to processing of cereals pulses and oil seeds,
  10. 10Study of different types of conveying and elevating equipments.
  11. 11Visit to grain processing industries.
Course Outcomes (COs)4 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Determine the drying characteristics of different food grains with an understanding to control the drying process for retaining the quality of produce.
  2. CO2Find out the fineness modulus and uniformity index of ground materials and separation effectiveness of different separators and graders
  3. CO3Develop the skill of operating and monitoring the different grain processing machines.
  4. CO4Prepare process charts for different grain processing operations.

Suggested Reading

  1. Chakraverty, A. Post Harvest Technology of cereals, pulses and oilseeds. Oxford & IBH publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
  2. Dash, S.K., Bebartta, J.P. and Kar, A. Rice Processing and Allied Operations. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
  3. Sahay, K.M. and Singh, K.K. 1994. Unit operations of Agricultural Processing. Vikas Publishing house Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
  4. Geankoplis C. J. Transport processes and unit operations, Prentice Hall of India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi
  5. Earle, R.L. 2003. Unit Operations in Food Processing. Pergamon Press. Oxford. U.K.
  6. Henderson, S.M., and Perry, R. L. Agricultural Process Engineering, Chapman and hall, London
  7. McCabe, W.L., Smith J.C. and Harriott, P. Unit operations of Chemical Engineering. McGraw Hill.
  8. Singh, R. Paul. and Heldman, R.Dennis. 2004. Introduction to Food Engineering. 3rd Edition. Academic Press, London.
  9. Corn: Chemistry and Technology by Watson SA & Ramstad PE., AACC
  10. Manuals on Rice and its processing by CFTRI Mysore and IIT Kharagpur.
  11. Cereal Technology by Potter NN. AVI Publication. Bakery Science & Cereal Technology by NeelamKhatarpaul, Rajbala Grewal &SudeshJood (Daya publishing house).

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