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DAIRY ENGINEERING

 

Food Engineering

 

Compiled By: - Mr. Girish Rajpurohit

 

Q. What is an ideal solid?

A.An ideal solid material deforms instantaneously when a load is applied. It returns to its original configuration instantaneously (complete recovery) upon removal of the load.

Q. What is hooke's law that is followed by ideal elastic material?

A. It states that the the stress (τ ) is directly proportional to the strain (γ ). The proportionality constant (G) is called the modulus.

Q. What is an ideal fluid?

A. An ideal fluid deforms at a constant rate under an applied stress, and the material does not regain its original configuration when the load is removed.

Q. What is Newton’s law which describe flow of simple viscous material?

A.The flow of a simple viscous material is described by Newton’s law, where the shear stress (τ ) is directly proportional the shear rate. The proportionality constant (η) is called the Newtonian viscosity.

Q. Moisture sorption isotherm is plot between moisture content (DB) and _____

A. Water Activity

Q. Which type of freezer is Plate freezer?

A. Non-contact freezer.

Q. Which effect causes freezing point depression (FPD)?

A. Concentration effect (more concentration of solute more FPD)

Q. Which type of freezing is IQF?

A. Rapid freezing

Q. What is rheology?

A. Study of flow and deformation.

Q. What is strain?

A. The unit change, due to force, in the size or shape of a body with respect to it’s original size and shape.

Q. What is stress?

A. It is force per unit area where action of force is perpendicular to the surface.

Q. What is shear stress?

A. It is force per unit area where action of force is parallel or tangential  to the surface.

Q. What is shear rate?

A.Shear rate is the rate of change of velocity at which one layer of fluid passes over an adjacent layer. As an example, consider that a fluid is placed between two parallel plates that are 1.0 cm apart, the upper plate moving at a velocity of 1.0 cm/sec and the lower plate fixed.

Q. What is linear strain?

A.The change per unit length due to force in an original linear direction.

Q. What is coefficient of viscosity?

A. It is the ratio between shear stress to the rate of shear (Newtonian liquids).

Q. What is kinematic viscosity?

A. It is coefficient of viscosity (dynamic viscosity) divided by mass density.

Q. What is modulus of elasticity?

A.The ratio of stress to corresponding strain below the proportional limit.

Q. What is resilience?

A. It is the property of material to absorb energy in the form of strain energy in elastic range when it is deformed elastically. When load is removed the energy is recovered.

Q. What is cryogenic freezing?

A. It means freezing done at very low temperatures (-150c) using liquid N2 or such refrigerant.

Q. What is critical moisture content?

A. Critical moisture content is the amount of moisture content pres3nt in the food roduct at the end of constant drying rate period.

Q. What is latent heat?

A. Heat energy given to a substance for its phase conversion only i.e. during this process temperature remains constant.

Q. What is sensible heat?

A. Heat required to change a temperature of the substance (within single phase).

Q. What is the mode of heat transfer in vacuum drying?

A. Conduction

Q. What is the use of Plank’s equation?

A.Calculation of freezing time (phase conversion only).

Q. What are the assumptions of Plank’s equation?

A. a. It doesn’t take the length aspect of food product in consideration.

     b. It only consider the phase change aspect.

Q. What do you mean by water activity?

A.Water activity (aw) is the partial vapour pressure of water in a substance divided by the partial vapour pressure of pure water at the same temperature. It is also given by ERH/100.

Q. What is the value of yield stress in shear thinning liquid?

A. Zero

Q. What do you mean by impact loading?

A. Static rapid loading such that forces are exerted and removed in a very short period of  time.

Q. What are the unit of convective heat transfer coefficient?

A.W/m^2.k

Q. Which type of dryer are mostly used for grains?

A. Bin dryer.

Q. Temperature sweep test in rheometer is plotbetween?

A.Viscosity vs Temperature

Q. Spray drier atomiser used for high Total solids product is?

A. Disc atomiser.

Q. What is threshold strength?

A.It is the stress required to initiate deformation.

Q. What is yield strength?

A.It the stress at which soft materials begin to yield.

Q. What is fracture strength?

A. It is the stress at which brittle materials fracture.

Q. What is creep?

A. Deformation with time, when the material is suddenly subjected to a dead load (constant stress).

Q. What is viscoelasticity?

A. It is a combined solid like and liquid like behaviour in which the stress-strain relationship is time dependent.

Q. What is poisson's ratio?

A. It is the ratio between the lateral contraction (as a fraction of the diameter ) and the longitudinal elongation. It is dimensionless.

Q. What is creep behavior?

A. It is the slow and progressive deformation with time under a constant stress.

Q. Condition for a commodity to neither losse or gain moisture is ?

A.Pressure of atmosphere around it equals to the pressure of the commodity.

Q. What is a good advantage of fluidized bed drier?

A. Entire material is continuously exposed to heat source.

Q. What is the other name of freeze drier?

A.Lyophilizer.

Q. Water activity of pure water in a cup us?

A. One

Q. Initial drying period is followed by a much slower rate of drying as the moisture content of the food ______ ?

A. Decreases

Q. Water activity of bound water is ?

A. Less than one.

Q. Convert 22% moisture content on wet basis to dry basis?

A. 22/88 *100 = 28.2%.

Q. What is liquid diffusion?

A. The phenomenon of liquid movement due to moisture concentration difference.

Q. Freezing curve is a plot between?

A. Temperature and time.

Q. List the steps of freezing process in sequence?

A.Supercooling, nucleation, crystallization, freezing.

Q. Enzyme used to check effectiveness of blanching?

A.Peroxidase enzyme.

Q. The working element if engleberg dehuller is?

A.Ribbed cast iron roller.

Q. Rubber-roll sheller consists of two rollers rotation in _____ direction at ______ speed?

A. Opposite, different.

Q. Distillation is a process which separates components based on their ______ ?

A. Vapour pressure.

Q. Wastage of water in ______ blancher can be reduced by using _____?

A. Hot water, steam.

Q. What is enzymatic browning?

A.Enzymatic browning is a chemical process which occurs in fruits and vegetables by the enzyme polyphenoloxidase, which results in brown pigments.

Q. What are objectives of blanching?

A.aTo soften the tissue to facilitate packaging.

     b. To avoid damage to the product.

     c. To eliminate air form the product.

     d. To preserve the natural colour.

     e. To destroy or retard certain undesirable enzymes.

     f. To help preserve natural flavour.

Q. What is viscosity?

A.Viscosity is a measure of a fluid’s resistance to flow.

Q. Examples of pseudoplastic (shear thinning) fluids?

A. Cosmetic lotions, dahi in lassi preparation etc.

Q. Examples of dilatant (shear thickening) fluids?

A.Soup, hydrocolloid solution, corn powder etc.

Q. What do you mean by Newtonian fluids?

A.A Newtonian fluid (named for Isaac Newton) is a fluid whose stress versus rate of strain curve is linear and passes through the origin. The constant of proportionality is known as the viscosity.

Q. Power law model is also called?

A. Ostwald model.

Q. Ideal Elastic body is represented by?

A. Spring

Q. Ideal Elastic body is represented by?

A. A friction block.

Q. Comparison of springs and dashpots?

A.Springs:- Purely Elastic Respond Instantaneously Store Energy Hook’s Law.

     Dashpots:- Purely Viscous Slow response Dissipate Energy in form of heat Newton’s Law.

Q. Give classification of time dependent fluids?

A. Thixotropic and rheopectic.

Q. Enlist various types of distillation?

A.Simple Distillation, Fractional Distillation, Vacuum Distillation, Steam distillation, Batch Distillation, Continuous Distillation.

Q. What is theprinciple of fractional distillation?

A. Separation on the basis of different boiling points of different fluids.

Q. What is dehulling?

A. It meansremoving husk from any grain or seeds with minimum damage to the bran layer and as far as possible not to break the grains.

Q. What is pulping?

A.Pulping is process that performed by the extraction or pulper equipment which crush the food products and separate the pulp, seed and skin of fruits and  vegetable.

 

 

References:-

1.      ICAR E-course (Food engineering)

2.      NDRI class notes

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