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NU FS 353

Unit Operations in Food Processing

3 units

Fall 2021

Topics

  • Review – unit concepts, mass balance
  • Labor Day
  • Review – mass balance, energy balance
  • Review – fluid flow, heat transfer
  • Refrigeration – refrigeration cycle, refrigerants, Mollier diagram
  • Refrigeration – Mollier diagram calculations, refrigeration load
  • Refrigeration – system components, equipment
  • Refrigeration – chilling and freezing of food products, systems used
  • Evaporation – process description, processing factors
  • Evaporation – single effect evaporators, preheating the feed
  • Evaporation – single effect, flash evaporation, multiple effect
  • Evaporation – multiple effect evaporators
  • Evaporation equipment, freeze concentration
  • Sedimentation – introduction, free settling velocity
  • Sedimentation - drag coefficient, free settling, hindered settling
  • Sedimentation equipment
  • Centrifugation
  • Centrifugation equipment, filtration introduction
  • Filtration, filtration equipment
  • Membrane filtration

Readings

  • Geankoplis, C.J. 2003. Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles. 4th Ed. Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ [electronic
    unspecified
Fall 2020

Topics

  • Review – unit concepts, mass balance
  • Labor Day
  • Review – mass balance, energy balance
  • Review – fluid flow, heat transfer
  • Zoom session
  • Refrigeration – Mollier diagram calculations, refrigeration load
  • Refrigeration – system components, equipment
  • Refrigeration – chilling and freezing of food products, systems used
  • Evaporation – single effect evaporators, preheating the feed
  • Evaporation – single effect, flash evaporation, multiple effect
  • Evaporation – multiple effect evaporators
  • Evaporation equipment, freeze concentration
  • Sedimentation - drag coefficient, free settling, hindered settling
  • Sedimentation equipment
  • Centrifugation
  • Centrifugation equipment, filtration introduction
  • Filtration, filtration equipment
  • Membrane filtration
  • Multiple stage operations
  • Absorption

Readings

  • Geankoplis, C.J. 2003. Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles. 4th Ed. Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ [electronic
    unspecified
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