Food Plant Design
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Course Description
COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction to food plant design
- Food plant scope and production organization
- Food process design
- Selection of construction materials and process equipment
- Balances of materials, energy and work force
- Transport and storage
- Food plant layout
- Additional considerations in food plant design
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- distinguish the phases of food plant project design identify the role of food technologist in those phases
- recommend the location of the food plant, depending on the properties of raw materials, products and processes
- prepare the terms of reference and analyse and recommend the raw material, product, process, degree of mechanization and automation, the required energy and workforce for the food plant operation
- calculate the material and energy balance and the amount of waste released from the food plant
- select construction material, process, transport and storage equipment of the appropriate properties
- apply specific requirements and legal regulations in the development of the food production process
- develop process schemes, layouts of equipment as well as main, auxiliary and storage areas and the situation plan of the food plant