Guia docente 2023_24
Facultade de Ciencias
Grado en Ingeniería Agraria
 Subjects
  Industrial installations
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Introduction - Chemical/Food processes
- Stages for process design
- Process simulators
- Economics. Process feasibility
Fundamentals of process engineering - Unit operations
- Energy integration
Equipment design and sizing - Liquid pumping. NPSH
- Movement of solids
- Agitation and mixture
Auxiliary equipment used in the food industry - "in situ" cleaning systems. Hygienic design
- Steam production
- Refrigeration
Study of representative processes employing agro-food based raw materials or related residual streams - Sugar production. Valorization of the residual pulp
- Malt production. Valorization of the residual bran
- Beer production. Residual streams: Characterization and valorization
- Production of oligomers from residual lignocellulosic materials
- Production of juices. Valorization of the residual solid residue
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