Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

FST 332 — Transport Phenomena and Thermodynamics II

2 units · FST department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• state process operations such as evaporation, dehydration, psychometry, surface phenomena, refrigeration and freezing and explain their applications in food processing
• conduct heat penetration studies in canned foods
• carry out material and energy balance calculations
• derive equations for specific problems and in different coordinate systems;
• discuss steady and non-steady diffusion, heat and mass transfer driven processes in the food industry.

Course contents

Evaporation, dehydration, psychometry, surface phenomena, refrigeration and freezing. Heat and mass transfer, Heat penetration within cans; factors affecting heat penetration with cans; death order of microorganisms with cans. Material and energy balance calculations, steady and unsteady conduction, free convection, forced convection and heat transfer with change of phase. Radiation heat transfer and its applications in food industry. Steady and non-steady diffusion in liquids. Mass transfer with convection and its applications in beverage industries.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study FST 332.

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