Course

Unit Operations in Food Processing - FOOD8801

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Chemical Engineering

Course Outline: [[http://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/chemical-engineering||School]

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6

Equivalent: FOOD1597

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The principles introduced in FOOD8601 and FOOD1587 are used in studying some of the more important unit operations in the food industry. The procedure used for each unit operation is to firstly describe the process, its applications, effects on the food product and requirements, appropriate process diagrams, mass and heat balances and flows, solving unit operation problems. Unit operations covered are refrigeration, dehydration, evaporation, extrusion, physical separation and comminution.
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