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COURSE INFORMATION
Course CodeCourse TitleL+P HourSemesterECTS
GMU 533FOOD DRYING TECHNIQUES3 + 01st Semester7,5

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Level Doctorate Degree
Course Type Elective
Course Objective To learn traditional and new food drying techniques, drying equipments, changes that occur during the drying of foods and basic energy and mass calculations during drying process.
Course Content Principles of food drying, water structure, properties, importance, bound-unbound water, water activity, measurement methods of water activity and moisture content, sorption isotherms, temperature effect on sorption isotherms, BET, GAB and other models, mass and heat transfer at drying, diffusion, capillar flow and other mechanisms, characteristic drying curves, enzymatic and chemical reactions in drying of foods, continue and discontinue drying operations, principles of various drying methods and their comparision, measurement and control techniques in food drying, energy and mass balances for dryiers.
Prerequisites No the prerequisite of lesson.
Corequisite No the corequisite of lesson.
Mode of Delivery Face to Face

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1Knowledge of the importance and general objectives of drying.
2Knowledge of the importance of water in foods, sorption isotherms and water activity.
3Knowledge of the principles of heat and mass transfer that occurs during drying process.
4Knowledge of the drying diagrams and psychrometric diagrams.
5Knowledge of the systems and equipments in using drying process.

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
PO 01PO 02PO 03PO 04PO 05PO 06PO 07PO 08PO 09PO 10PO 11PO 12
LO 0013432333     
LO 00234345532    
LO 00344454544    
LO 00454544545    
LO 00554453445    
Sub Total2020192019221816    
Contribution444444430000

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
ActivitiesQuantityDuration (Hour)Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)14342
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)14798
Mid-terms12525
Final examination13030
Total Work Load

ECTS Credit of the Course






195

7,5
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Details 2023-2024 Spring1ENGİN DEMİRAY
Details 2022-2023 Spring1ENGİN DEMİRAY
Details 2022-2023 Fall1ENGİN DEMİRAY
Details 2021-2022 Spring1ENGİN DEMİRAY
Details 2020-2021 Spring1ENGİN DEMİRAY
Details 2018-2019 Spring1ENGİN DEMİRAY
Details 2014-2015 Spring1YAHYA TÜLEK
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Course Details
Course Code Course Title L+P Hour Course Code Language Of Instruction Course Semester
GMU 533 FOOD DRYING TECHNIQUES 3 + 0 1 Turkish 2023-2024 Spring
Course Coordinator  E-Mail  Phone Number  Course Location Attendance
Assoc. Prof. Dr. ENGİN DEMİRAY edemiray@pau.edu.tr FEN A0313 MUH A0197 %
Goals To learn traditional and new food drying techniques, drying equipments, changes that occur during the drying of foods and basic energy and mass calculations during drying process.
Content Principles of food drying, water structure, properties, importance, bound-unbound water, water activity, measurement methods of water activity and moisture content, sorption isotherms, temperature effect on sorption isotherms, BET, GAB and other models, mass and heat transfer at drying, diffusion, capillar flow and other mechanisms, characteristic drying curves, enzymatic and chemical reactions in drying of foods, continue and discontinue drying operations, principles of various drying methods and their comparision, measurement and control techniques in food drying, energy and mass balances for dryiers.
Topics
WeeksTopics
1 Principles of food drying
2 Water structure, water properties, importance, bound-unbound water.
3 Water activity, measurement methods of water activity and moisture content
4 Sorption isotherms
5 Psychrometric diagrams
6 BET, GAB and other drying models.
7 Heat and mass transfer in food drying
8 Drying diagrams
9 Midterm exam
10 Drying rate
11 Physical, enzymatic and chemical reactions in drying of foods
12 Drying sysytems and equipments
13 Drying sysytems and equipments
14 Energy and mass balance calculations
Materials
Materials are not specified.
Resources
ResourcesResources Language
Geankoplis, C. J., “Transport Processes and Unit Operations”, Third Edition, , Prentice-Hall Int.,Inc., (1993).English
Brennan, J.G., Butters, J.R. and Cowell, N.D., “Food Engineering Operations”, Elsevier Applied Science, London, (1990).English
Cemeroğlu, B., Karadeniz, F., Özkan, M., “Meyve ve Sebze İşleme Teknolojisi”, Gıda Teknolojisi Derneği, (2001).Türkçe
Heldman D.R., “Food Process Engineering”, The Avi Publishing Co. Inc., (1975).English
Mujumdar, A.S., “Handbook of Industrial Drying”, Taylor & Francis, Inc., (2006).English
Sun, D. W., “Thermal Food Processing”, Taylor & Francis, Inc., (2006)English
Richardson, P., “Thermal Technologies in Food Processing” CRC Press, (2001).English
Course Assessment
Assesment MethodsPercentage (%)Assesment Methods Title
Final Exam50Final Exam
Midterm Exam50Midterm Exam
L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes