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22-Agric-B8 Food Process Engineering (Part 1): December 2013

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  1. Question 1 Aseptic Holding-Tube Spoilage Probability
  2. Question 2 Process Deviation — Stumbo g-Table Procedure
  3. Question 3 5D Process Time and Spoilage Under a Mis-Stated z-Value
  4. Question 4 Plate Evaporator — Milk Concentration and Fouling
  5. Question 5 Vapour Recompression and Steam-Jet Ejection
  6. Question 6 Forward-Feed Double-Effect Evaporator — Steam Economy
  7. Question 7 Freezing Time in Liquid Nitrogen — Surface Heat Transfer Coefficient
  8. Question 8 Can Freezing — Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient
  9. Question 9 Can Heating in a Retort — Centre Temperature by Heisler Charts
  10. Question 10 Walk-In Freezer — Composite Wall Heat Transfer

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Paper format. 04-Agric-B8 Food Process Engineering (Part 1), National Exams December 2013 — a three-hour open-book exam (any non-communicating calculator permitted). Ten questions are set in four sections (I–IV), each with a "choose N of M" instruction; candidates who follow the choice rule answer six questions for a 100-mark paper. All ten are worked here so the set is a complete study resource.

Reference texts. R.T. Toledo, Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering, 3rd ed. (thermal-process lethality, D and z values, Ball/Stumbo process calculation, aseptic holding-tube residence time — this is the exam's own appendix source); C.J. Geankoplis, Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, 4th ed. (evaporator heat and mass balances, multiple-effect steam economy, vapour recompression); R.P. Singh and D.R. Heldman, Introduction to Food Engineering, 5th ed. (freezing-time estimation, modified Plank equation, unsteady-state heat transfer in canned foods); A.C. Cleland, Food Refrigeration Processes: Analysis, Design and Simulation (Plank/Cleland-Earle freezing-time correlations); F.P. Incropera and D.P. DeWitt, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer (transient conduction, Heisler charts, composite-wall resistance).