Educational guide 2024_25 Facultade de Ciencias

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction	- Structure of agroindustrial processes - Stages in the design of a process - Economic viability
Fundamentals of process engineering	- Basic operations - Process flow diagrams - Process control diagrams - Introduction to plant layout
Equipment design and sizing	- Fluid drive equipment - Transport of solids - Stirring and mixing - Process simulation
Auxiliary equipment used in the food industry	- Hygienic design - Materials selection - Generation of heat and cold
Study of agroindustrial processes representative	- Obtaining biopolymers from agricultural waste - Sugar production. Valuation of residual pulp - Malt production. Valuation of residual husk - Beer production. Residual currents: Characterization and exploitation - Juice production. Valorization of the resulting solid waste