General course information
Course staff
The course is coordinated by Dr Robert Driscoll (Room G03, Building C8a, tel: 9385 4355,
fax: 9385 5931, e-mail: r.driscoll@unsw.edu.au). He is the contact point for enquiries and
resolution of any problems.
Other staff involved: Dr J.L. Paterson (Room 709, tel: 9385 5355,
fax: 9385 5966, e-mail: j.paterson@unsw.edu.au).
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General course information
Outline
This course is intended to familiarise students with food processing technologies,
equipment and analysis.
It involves granular materials (flow and handling, comminution, physical separation methods)
packaging (purpose, plastics, migration, materials, equipment), unit operations (extrusion,
dehydration and evaporation).
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Requisite knowledge and relationships to other courses
It is assumed that students will have a basic understanding of general science and food science
and technology.
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Structure
The subject material is divided into three main strands; unit operations, packaging and
granular materials. Two of the three strands are taught each week: strand 1 on Monday 4-6 and
Wednesday 12-1, and strand 2 on Wednesday 9-12. The four labs on course topics
are scheduled on Wednesdays,
and you are required to sketch equipment and write short reports for each
demonstration.
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Assessment
Weighting of assessment tasks
To pass the course, students MUST attend and obtain a cumulative pass mark for the
progress and final examinations, and a pass mark for the group presentation.
Total assessment of 100% is composed of:
| Item |
Weighting |
| Assignments (x3) |
15% |
| Demonstration reports (x4) |
32% |
| Mid-session Quiz |
15% |
| End of Year Exam |
38% |
Students are required to pass the final exam.
- Assignments are due two weeks after being
handed out. Unless a valid medical certificate is presented, assignments
and reports submitted after the due date will be halved in value.
Assignments or reports which are more than two weeks late will receive ZERO
marks.
- The mid-session quiz
is in a similar format to the final exam, so is important preparation for the
final exam.
- The final exam is a
three hour formal exam covering all topics for the session.
- Lab reports must be
brief and clear, following the guidelines in the lab manual.
If you miss a lecture, you should catch up the material for that lecture before attending
the next. Students are expected to participate in tutorial times, and are encouraged to form
groups and discuss problem solving ideas with each other.
You are expected to know and to abide by the University rules. See:
https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/Plagiarism.html for detailed
information.
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Texts and reference material
Fellows, PJ: Food Processing Technology: Principles and Practise (CRC, Second edition
or later).
Singh and Heldman, Introduction to Food Engineering, (Academic Press, second edition
or later).
Readings
References by topics:
[For best use of lecture time, read-up on a topic in advance.]
Evaporation and Dehydration:
- Singh, RP and Heldman, RH: Introduction to Food Engineering (current
edition).
Toledo, R: Fundamentals of
Food Process Engineering.
Packaging:
- Robertson, G: Food Packaging.
Sacharow, S and Griffin RC: Principles of Food Packaging (look
for other books in the library by Sacharow – there are several)
Granular Materials:
- Fellows, PJ: Food Processing Technology: Principles and Practise (CRC, Second edition).
Toledo, R: Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering.
Extrusion and Scale-Up:
- Fellows, PJ: Food Processing Technology: Principles and Practise (CRC, Second edition).
Sharma, SK, Mulvaney, SJ, Rizvi, SSH: Food Process Engineering: Theory and Laboratory Practise
(Wiley Int Science).
For most topics:
Since lectures are updated
periodically, the notes provided on the web-site are to supplement the lecture
series, and are NOT meant to exactly match lecture content.
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Lecture and Laboratory Program
The dates and respective lecture/discussion topics are listed below.
Lectures will be given by Dr Driscoll and Dr Paterson.
| Date |
Monday 4-6pm in Room CE101 (Civil
Engineering Building)
Wednesday 12-1pm in Room G05 (Applied Science Building) |
Wednesday 9-12 midday in Room G05
(Applied Science Building) |
25 Jul
RHD |
Introduction to course
Refrigeration: Review of cooling |
Packaging 1 The Need for Packaging
Plastics |
1 Aug
RHD |
Refrigeration: Mechanical refrigeration cycle |
Packaging 2 Packaging LAB |
8 Aug
RHD |
Refrigeration: Cycle
design and charts |
Packaging 3 Migration |
15 Aug
RHD |
Refrigeration: Cool
rooms, equipment, freezing curves |
Refrigeration LAB |
22 Aug
RHD |
Refrigeration: Food Freeze concentration; Ice
cream |
Packaging 4
Workshops 1 and 2 |
29 Aug
RHD |
Packaging 5 Transport packaging |
Packaging 6 Workshops 3 and 4
Packaging equipment |
5 Sep
RHD |
Unit Operations 1 Dehydration I |
Packaging 8 Workshops 5 and 6 |
12 Sep
RHD |
Mid Session Quiz Dehydration II |
Unit Operations 2 Drying LAB |
19 Sep
RHD |
Unit Operations 3 Dehydration
III;
Feedback on MSQ |
CSIRO AFISC Visit, North Ryde 8:30am,
2-3 hr visit |
| 26-30 Sep |
NO CLASS - MID-SESSION RECESS |
3 Oct
RHD |
Unit Operations 4 Physical
Separation I |
Unit Operations 5 Physical
Separation II |
10 Oct
RHD |
Unit Operations 6 Evaporation I |
Unit Operations 7 Evaporation
II |
17 Oct
RHD |
Unit Operations 8 Extrusion I
(JLP) |
Unit Operations 9 Evaporation
LAB |
24 Oct
RHD |
Unit Operations 10 Extrusion II
(JLP) |
Extrusion III (JLP) |
31 Oct
RHD |
Process Control |
Workshop and Summary |
Packaging will be partially taught in workshops.
Course administration
Attendance and absence
The School policies on attendance at classes and absence from or failure to submit assessment tasks reflect the policies
provided in the UNSW Student Guide 2005. Students who fail to attend at least 80% of classes may be refused
permission to sit for examinations or other forms of assessment. Consideration of non-attendance at classes and/or
non-completion of assessment tasks will be given to students who experience genuine and properly documented
cases of hardship, such as recent bereavement or serious illness. The process by which consideration is granted is
documented in the UNSW Student Guide 2005.
Submission of assignments
Assignments must be submitted by the due date (two weeks after being handed out, unless another date is negotiated
with the academic coordinator of the course. Assignments should be submitted with a completed assignment cover sheet,
available from the Homepage of this Food Science and Technology website
(http://www.foodscience.unsw.edu.au/), and placed into the assignment
box near the bag racks at the eastern end of the teaching laboratory (Building C8a).
Academic misconduct (plagiarism)
Plagiarism policy
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Plagiarism is the presentation of the thoughts or work of another
as one's own.*
Examples
include:
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direct duplication
of the thoughts or work of another, including by copying material,
ideas or concepts from a book, article, report or other written
document (whether published or unpublished), composition, artwork,
design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, web site,
Internet, other electronic resource, or another person's assignment
without appropriate acknowledgement;
-
paraphrasing
another person's work with very minor changes keeping the meaning,
form and/or progression of ideas of the original;
-
piecing together
sections of the work of others into a new whole;
-
presenting an
assessment item as independent work when it has been produced in
whole or part in collusion with other people, for example, another
student or a tutor; and,
-
claiming credit
for a proportion a work contributed to a group assessment item that
is greater than that actually contributed. **
Submitting an assessment item that has already been submitted for
academic credit elsewhere may also be considered plagiarism. Knowingly
permitting your work to be copied by another student may also be
considered to be plagiarism. An assessment item produced in oral, not
written form, or involving live presentation, may similarly contain
plagiarised material.
The
inclusion of the thoughts or work of another with attribution
appropriate to the academic discipline does not amount to
plagiarism.
Students
are reminded of their Rights and Responsibilities in respect of
plagiarism, as set out in the University Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Handbooks, and are encouraged to seek advice from academic staff
whenever necessary to ensure they avoid plagiarism in all its forms.
The
Learning Centre website is the central University online resource for
staff and student information on plagiarism and academic honesty. It can
be located at:
www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism
The
Learning Centre also provides substantial educational written materials,
workshops, and tutorials to aid students, for example, in:
-
correct
referencing practices;
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paraphrasing,
summarising, essay writing, and time management;
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appropriate use
of, and attribution for, a range of materials including text,
images, formulae and concepts.
Individual assistance is available on request from The Learning Centre.
Students
are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of
study and one of the identified causes of plagiarism is poor time
management. Students should allow sufficient time for research,
drafting, and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all
assessment items.
* Based
on that proposed to the University of Newcastle by the St James Ethics
Centre. Used with kind permission from the University of Newcastle.
** Adapted
with kind permission from the University of Melbourne. |
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