Food & Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory II
Corley Annex 3
Additional food and bioprocess engineering activities are conducted in this laboratory. This room contains an environmental chamber and a unique radio frequency heating unit. The room has 786 square feet.
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Enviromental Chamber |
Equipment:
- Environmental Chamber: Has the following ranges: temperature - -35C to 180C, relative humidity (0 to 100%). The chamber can be programmed for temperature and relative humidity cycling via the full-color, touch screen programmer or by means of computer via RS-232. Temperature and relative humidity history in the chamber can be displayed and recorded.
- IR moisture analyzer: This is used for rapid-moisture determination of biological materials. The analyzer has a state-of-the-art, microprocessor that determines moisture content/dry weight using the Loss on Drying (LOD) principle. Infrared radiation is used to heat to heat up samples thereby causing the material to expel moisture while the precision electronic balance measures the sample mass continuously until specified end-point conditions are met.
- Water Activity meter: This is a digital benchtop water activity unit that is capable of determining water activity of up to four materials simultaneously within 5 minutes via digital probe inputs. The water activity meter can also be controlled by a windows-based software via a RS-232 interface. The range of the water activity meter is 0 to 100%.
- Pellet durability tester: This tester was assembled in the department mechanical workshop based on the specifications of ASAE Standard S269.4. The tester is used to quantify the durabiliy of pelleted materials. The durability is also equipped with a variable speed drive motor that can be used to change the speed at which testing takes place if need be.
Last Updated:
Feb 09, 2011
