Thermal Processing of Foods online course offered by IIT Guwahati

Thermal Processing of Foods is a free online course offered by IIT Guwahati conducted by the NPTEL.

About the course:

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) issued a report on the importance and complexities associated with feeding the projected 9.1 billion world population in 2050.
Sustainable production of safe and nutritious foods, development of foods that have a long shelf life and foods that are either ready-to-eat or easy to are of greater importance towards meeting this goal.
Understanding "Food Engineering" and "Thermal Processing of Foods" serves as basic requirement means of meeting this goal.

Syllabus:

Food microbiology: microbial growth and concerns in various foods, Blanching, Pasteurization, Ultra-pasteurization, Hot fill and UHT
Thermal processing equipment, Milk pasteurization, Canning operations
Temperature distribution and heat penetration, Kinetics of reactions, F value and process requirements
Quality considerations and process optimization, Shelf life studies, Validation of heat processes
Fundamentals of aseptic processing ,Aseptic equipment design, Aseptic process design
Microwave and radio frequency heating, Ohmic heating, Overview of non-thermal processing technologies.
Advanced separation processes high pressure, dialysis ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis nanofiltration, electro dialysis and membrane separation.
Various types of heat exchangers for food process engineering Various types of driers for food process engineering
Importance and applications of extrusion technology in food processing Changes of properties and functional components of extruded foods
Food biosensors Types of functional foods: Probiotics and Nutraceuticals
Sanitary components and requirements, regulatory considerations

Duration: 12 weeks

Enrollment: May 20, 2020 to July 27, 2020

Exam Date: October 17, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://nptel.ac.in/noc/courses/noc20/SEM2/noc20-ag07/