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Unit Operations

Unit Operations. Semester 2 - 2010 Quality Technology – VBP045. Unit Operations. What do we mean by “Unit Operations”?. Unit Operations. “Unit Operations” = A food processing operation by which raw materials are the input and the desired product is the output. Unit Operations.

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Unit Operations

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  1. Unit Operations Semester 2 - 2010 Quality Technology – VBP045

  2. Unit Operations What do we mean by “Unit Operations”?

  3. Unit Operations “Unit Operations” = A food processing operation by which raw materials are the input and the desired product is the output

  4. Unit Operations Using a material balance and an energy balance, a food engineering process can be viewed overall or as a series of units. Each unit is a unit operation. The unit operation can be represented by a box as shown in Fig. 1.1.

  5. View of a Unit Process

  6. Unit Operations - Overview Important unit operations in the food industry are: • Heat transfer – thermal processing, freezing, chilling • Drying – dehydration and concentration • Evaporation • Contact equilibrium processes (which include distillation, extraction, gas absorption, crystallization, and membrane processes)

  7. Important Unit Operations (cont) • Mechanical separations (which include filtration, centrifugation, sedimentation and sieving) • Size reduction – grinding, milling • Mixing, forming and shaping • Extrusion

  8. Unit Operations Examples – what type of process or processes are used in the manufacture of examples handed around in class? List and discuss on whiteboard

  9. Mass & Energy • Two very important laws which all unit operations obey are the laws of conservation of mass and energy. • The law of conservation of mass states that mass can neither be created nor destroyed. • “What goes in must come out".

  10. Mass & Energy • The law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The total energy in the materials entering the processing plant, plus the energy added in the plant, must equal the total energy leaving the plant.

  11. Examples of Unit Operations • Heat Transfer = • Pasteurisation of milk • Freezing of fish • Ultra heat treatment (UHT) of juice • Chilling meat patties/burgers • Steam jacketed kettle used to sauces • Canned fruits

  12. Examples of Unit Operations • Drying = • Spray dried milk powder • Sun dried tomatoes • Freeze dried vegetables • Pastas Types: Air drying, freeze drying, vaccum drying

  13. Examples of Unit Operations • Evaporation = • Concentrated tomato paste • Evaporated milk • Concentrated fruit juices • Condensed soups

  14. Examples of Unit Operations 4. Contact equilibrium processes = • Crystallisation – sugar, salt • Extraction – oils • Ultra-filtration of milks • Distillation of mixtures containing alcohol, vinegars

  15. Examples of Unit Operations 5. Mechanical separations = • Centrifuging – cream, butter • Separation of oil and water eg. • Filtration – of oils using a press • Sieving – flours, cereals, grains

  16. Examples of Unit Operations • Size reduction = • Grinding of sugar • Crystallization of salt • Grinding & milling of herbs and spices

  17. Examples of Unit Operations • Mixing, forming, shaping = • Using blenders to combine ingredients • Soup mixes – blends of starch, vegies • Blending – flavours for potato chips • Premixes of flavourings for sausages

  18. Examples of Unit Operations • Extrusion = • Puffed corn, rice or other cereal products • “Cruskits” • Corn thins • Pasta shapes

  19. Examples of Unit Operations • Using the examples given, revise your list of which “process” you think would be used in to manufacture the foods. • Discuss as a group

  20. BREAK

  21. Freezing Vertical Plate Freezer • Contact with solid • Plate freezers • Vertical • Horizontal Contact Plate Freezer

  22. Freezing Contact with Liquid Liquid brine Synthetic coolant

  23. Immersion freezer • The immersion freezer consists of a tank with a cooled freezing media, such as glycol, glycerol, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and mixtures of salt and sugar. • The product is immersed in this solution or sprayed while being conveyed through the freezer

  24. Contact with LiquidImmersion freezing

  25. Freezing Contact with gas Blast freezer Fluidized bed

  26. Blast Freezer Contact with Gas

  27. Tunnel Freezer

  28. Spiral Blast Freezer

  29. Fluidized bed Freezing

  30. Cryogenic Freezing • Liquid nitrogen, with a boiling temperature of -196 °C at atmospheric pressure • Liquid carbon dioxide the gas is released to the atmosphere at -70 °C, half of the gas becomes dry-ice snow and the other half stays in the form of vapor.

  31. Cryogenic tunnel

  32. DVD • It’s a blast – Chilling and Freezing

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