Classes

Fundamentals of Food Engineering

Semester: 
Fall
Offered: 
2012
  • Principles of mass transfer processes
  • Mass balances in agro-food industries
  • Gases and sprays
  • Temperature and heat
  • Principles on freezing food products
  • Some important chemical reactions in the agro-food industry
  • Zero-, first- and second-order kinetics

Energy and Environment

Semester: 
Fall
Offered: 
2012

Environmental impacts of energy production from fossil fuels and renewable sources

Treatment and Valorisation of Wastewaters and Solid Wastes (Agro-industries)

Semester: 
Spring
Offered: 
2012
  • Characterisation of liquid effluents and solid residues from agro-food industries
  • Primary treatment processes: pH correction; coagulation-flocculation, primary settling, removal of oil and grease
  • Secondary treatment processes: activated sludge, aerated ponds, trickling filters, sequencing batch reactors, secondary settling, centrifugation, filtration

Bioenergy

Semester: 
Spring
Offered: 
2012
  • Production of energy crops
  • Characterisation of agro-forestry residues
  • Production of solid and liquid biofuels through mechanical and chemical processes
  • Fermentation processes
  • Anaerobic digestion

Seminar II

Semester: 
Spring
Offered: 
2012
  • Life Cycle Assessment metodologies
  • Ecolabel of EU
  • Eco-design

Valorisation of Biomass and Residues

Semester: 
Spring
Offered: 
2012
  • Anaerobic digestion for biogas and methane
  • Fermentation processes for bio-hydrogen