Department of Process Engineering

Representative

Davor Valinger, PhD

Phone: +385 1 4605 294
Email: davor.valinger@pbf.hr

Location

1. floor

At the Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, upon completion of undergraduate and graduate study programmes, students are awarded academic titles of Bachelor or Master. Students acquire knowledge from various fields of process engineering, mathematical modelling, management and optimization and control of technological processes, thermodynamics, measurements, regulation and automation, transition phenomena, unit operations, but also determining material and energy balances in biotechnology and food engineering. Postgraduate studies are also included in the curriculum of the Department for Process Engineering for the doctoral academic degree. Development of new methods of management, control and safety of technological processes in the food industry, characterization of the mixing degree for powdered materials, determination of particle size distribution, analysis of textural properties of food products, application of ultrasound and high hydrostatic pressure in food technology and biotechnology are an integral part of the work done by the Department’s staff. The Department conducts research activities in numerous scientific and technological projects.

The staff of the Department are active members of international organizations (ISEKI - Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain; EAFE - European Academy of Food Engineering and international projects (FP6, UNIDO, COST, TEMPUS, ERASMUS, EU Structural Funds and Bilateral projects) with the aim of connecting with research teams in the European research area.

In this way, they develop and improve the technological processes of food processing and production. Over the last few years, the laboratories of the Department for Process Engineering have collaborated with numerous food companies through technology projects.

 

Subdepartments

Laboratories and Cabinets
Laboratory for Unit Operations
Laboratory for Thermodynamics
Laboratory for Measurement, Control and Automatisation
Section for Fundamental Engineering
Section for Mathematics

Employees

Name and surname Academic title Job title
Mladen Brnčić PhD Full Professor
Mirjana Čurlin PhD Full Professor
Jasenka Gajdoš Kljusurić PhD Full Professor
Damir Ježek PhD Full Professor
Ana Vukelić PhD Full Professor
Maja Benković PhD Associate Professor
Julije Jakšetić PhD Associate Professor
Sven Karlović PhD Associate Professor
Davor Valinger PhD Associate Professor
Tomislav Bosiljkov PhD Assistant Professor
Marjan Praljak PhD Assistant Professor
Goran Dražić PhD Scientific Assistant
Filip Dujmić PhD Scientific Assistant
Tamara Jurina PhD Scientific Assistant
Ana Jurinjak Tušek PhD Scientific Assistant
Iva Šarić mag. ing. Scientific Assistant
Marko Škegro mag. ing. Scientific Assistant
Mirna Tadić mag. ing. Scientific Assistant
Darjan Pipić Technical Associate
Goran Bosanac Eng. Technical Associate

Courses (preddiplomski)

Course Title Course number ECTS
Basic informatics 24091; 24116; 37961; 239331; 239470; 240347 2
Mathematics 32167; 240345 6
Mathematics 1 24080; 24112; 239328; 239464 5
Mathematics 2 24094; 24119; 239337; 239475 5
Measurement and Process Control 39807 3
Modeling and Optimization in Nutrition 32441 4
Numerical methods and programming 32418; 252773 5/4
Physics 253854 3
Physics (new program) 253855, 253856 6
Powder Technology 39801 3
Principles of Engineering 24087; 24122 5
Process Measurement and Control in Food Engineering 39769 3
Statistics 32168; 252795 5
Statistics 32407; 252766 5
Statistics 32428; 252780 5/4
Transport Phenomena 32410; 32442; 5
Unit Operations 32414; 32424 5

Courses (diplomski)

Course Title Course number ECTS
Applied Data Analysis 66790; 239621 3
Basics of Measurement Methods in Nutrition 66826 3
Modelling in Food Engineering 53291 3
Modelling in food technology 239545 3
Modelling of Biotechnology Processes 53228 (ADBI09) 4
Process Control in Food Industry 53736 4
Reactor Engineering 53225 4
Robotics in Food Engineering 53293 3
Ultrasound in Food Engineering 66830 5

Courses (poslijediplomski)

Course Title Course number ECTS
Disperse systems 165612 3

Courses (doktorski)

Course Title Course number ECTS
Energy in biotechnology and food production 165600 3
Modelling and optimization in menu planning 165645 3
Ultrasound in biotechnology and food technology 165599 3

Courses ()

Course Title Course number ECTS
Computational Tools for Human Nutrition Modeling 253099 3
Energy in biotechnology 3
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