Official NUC CCMAS syllabus
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Add FDE 409 to my StudyOps — free →Product Development leading to design specification, problem identification and definition. The process design team. Survey and market analysis. The design data book. The use of design handbook and codes. Block diagram, symbolic representations of food equipment. Development of a Process Flow Diagram, material and energy balances in process calculations. Flow-sheeting. Pictorial representation of basic food equipment. Food process control and automation. Elements of Computer-Aided Process Design. Process engineering flow diagram and process charts in food processing, related symbols and conventions. Mass and energy balances, contrasting food process design from chemical process design. Conception, inventorization and associated calculations for typically complex food processing systems, process instrumentation and optimization. Optimization by differentiation, programming methods. flow-sheeting software. software. applications and examples (optimization studies for different food processes). Optimization procedures: search methods, response surface method, neural network, genetic algorithms, etc. modeling, computer simulation. Fundamentals of computer simulation: Model formulation, simulation, amongst others. Report writing and presentation.
Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study FDE 409.