Dairy Technology

Complete ICAR AIEEA PG Dairy Technology syllabus covering dairy processing, engineering, equipment, refrigeration and plant design.

ICAR AIEEA PG Dairy Technology Syllabus

Sub-Subjects: Dairy Technology and Dairy Engineering.

 UNIT-I:

Principles and processes of food preservation, non-conventional sources, processing of fluid milk, computerization and automatic process controls in milk processing. HACCP concepts in fluid milk processing. Advances in centrifugal separation and bactofugation. Manufacture of various types of dairy products and changes occurring during manufacture and storage and their defects. Sensory evaluation and judging of milk and milk products, types of packaging materials and their properties, packing forms and operations, problems in food packaging, recent advances in packaging dairy and food products. Intelligent food packaging. Nutritional labeling of food products. Application of membrane processing in milk processing.

UNIT-II:

Materials and sanitary features of dairy equipment. Homogenizer—theory of homogenization, triplex pump, lubrication of the homogenizer, care and management of homogenizer, homogenizer accessories and standards for homogenizer. Pasteurizer—pasteurizer construction and principle, materials used in construction of pasteurizers, high temperature short time pasteurizer, care of pasteurizer, reaction kinetics, sterilizer, mixing and agitation equipment, principles of evaporation and drying, atmospheric concentration, vacuum pan, fluidization, care of vacuum pan, atmospheric drum dryer and spray dryer.

UNIT-III:

Principles of dairy plant layout and design, functional design, space requirement of milk plant, problem solving through computers, centralized dispersal of data processing, d-BASE-III, Lotus 1-2-3, graphics and Fortran.

UNIT-IV:

Fluid mechanics—properties of fluids, Bernoulli’s equation and its applications, hydraulic systems, types of pumps, sanitary pumps, standards for centrifugal and positive rotary type pumps, selection of pumps, care and upkeep of pumps, dimensional analysis, refrigeration and air-conditioning, artificial refrigeration, compression refrigeration system, refrigeration accessories and calculation of size of refrigeration machine requirements.

UNIT-V:

Heat transfer and thermodynamics; mechanical separations, Rittinger’s and Kick’s laws, engineering mechanics, theory of machine, strength of materials, Hook’s law, materials of fabrication, machine tools, electrical engineering, electromagnetic induction, magnetic hysteresis loop (BH curve) and AC fundamentals.