M.Tech / ICAR-NET · ASPE

Dairy Engineering, Instrumentation and Process Control

ASPE-U10 Agricultural Structures & Process Engineering

Syllabus topic plan

1. 01Principles of dairy equipment design; design of vessels and milk storage tanks
2. 02Design considerations for heat exchangers and reaction vessels
3. 03Design of evaporators, pasteurizers and cream separators
4. 04Design of homogenizers, butter churns, drum dryers and spray dryers
5. 05Dairy product processing
6. 06Vapour compression and vapour absorption refrigeration systems; heat pumps
7. 07Design of refrigeration equipment, cold storage and air conditioning systems
8. 08Advanced dairy processes: UHT processing, adsorption/sorption, electrodialysis, aeration and gas transfer
9. 09Dairy plant maintenance
10. 10Static and dynamic characteristics of instruments; transducer, intermediate, indicating and recording elements
11. 11Measurement of motion, force, torque, power, temperature, humidity, pressure and flow
12. 12Physical and chemical sensors, biosensors; fuzzy logic, neural networks and control
13. 13Plant monitoring via internet; data loggers and data acquisition systems (DAS)
14. 14Direct digital control (DDC), SCADA and virtual instrumentation

Part of the M.Tech / ICAR-NET curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each topic on theciae.