The Department of Food Engineering is one of the four constituent departments under Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, BCKV, Mohanpur, West Bengal. It covers wide range of areas like Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Refrigeration and Cold Storage, Dairy and Food Processing, Food Plant Equipment Design, Food packaging Technology, Bio-process Engineering, Dairy and Food Product Technology etc. The Department is engaged in teaching, research and extension activities to create skilled human resources for rapidly growing food processing sector. The main mission of the Department is
- To provide knowledge and skills for better preservation, processing and value addition to agro-products, with the aim of supporting the producers.
- To promote research and development for product and process and assurance of high level of hygiene and safety of processed food.
- To promote food safety laws and regulations for supporting a competitive, modern and safe food market for the consumers.
Courses Offered and Intake Details
M. Tech (Processing and Food Engineering); intake capacity – 12
| Course No. | Course Title | Credits | Total |
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| SEMESTER-I | |||
| PFE-501 | Transport Phenomena in Food Processing | 3+0 | 3 |
| PFE-502 | Engineering Properties of Food Materials | 2+1 | 3 |
| PFE-503 | Advanced Food Process Engineering | 3+1 | 4 |
| PFE-504 | Food Processing Equipment and Plant Design | 2+1 | 3 |
| Total credits | 13 | ||
| SEMESTER-II | |||
| PFE-551 | Storage Engineering and Handling of Agricultural products | 2+1 | 3 |
| PFE-552 | Agricultural Waste and By-Products Utilization | 2+1 | 3 |
| PFE-553 | Food Packaging | 3+0 | 3 |
| PFE-554 | Advances in drying of Food Materials | 2+1 | 3 |
| PFE-555 | Instrumentation and Process Control in Food Industries | 3+0 | 3 |
| Total credits | 15 | ||
| SEMESTER-III | |||
| Minor-I | 3+1 | 4 | |
| Minor-II | 2+1 | 3 | |
| Supporting course | 2+1 | 3 | |
| PFE-649 | Seminar-I | 0+1 | 1 |
| Total credits | 11 | ||
| SEMESTER-IV | |||
| PFE-700 | Project Work | 0+20 | 20 |
| PFE-652 | Comprehensive Viva-voce | Non credit | |
| PFE-699 | Seminar-II | 0+1 | 1 |
| Total credits | 21 | ||
| Overall Total credits | 60 | ||
Ph.D. (Processing and Food Engineering)
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SEMESTER-I |
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| PFE-701 | Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer | 4(3+1) |
| PFE-702 | Textural & Rheological Characteristics of Food Materials | 3(2+1) |
| PFE 703 | Advances in Drying of Food Materials | 4( 3+1) |
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SEMESTER-II |
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| PFE-751 | Cold Storage of Food Products | 3(2+1) |
| PFE-752 | Food Plant Instrumentation and Control | 3(3+0) |
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SEMESTER-III |
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| PFE-801 | Computational Methods in Food Engineering | 3(2+1) |
| PFE 802 | Agricultural Waste and By-products Utilization | 3(2+1) |
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SEMESTER-IV |
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| PFE-851 | Aseptic Packaging of Food | 3(3+0) |
| PFE-799 | Seminar-I | 1(0+1) |
| PFE-899 | Seminar-II | 1(0+1) |
| PFE-999 | Seminar-III | 1(0+1) |
Infrastructures / Facilities
(1) Food Engineering Lab
2) A Solar Assisted Vapour Absorption Refrigeration System (SAVARS) for Cooling of Fruits and Vegetables