Dairy Engineering Department at Glance
Preamble:
Department of Dairy Engineering is a major department of the faculty of Dairy Technology established in 1992. The B.Tech. (Dairy Technology) degree program is an industry oriented course by & large aiming to impart the knowledge of milk pertinent post-production operations involving variety of equipment and utilities. Hence, the Dairy Technology graduates are supposed to be proficient in;
The department of Dairy Engineering aims to prepare students through various courses for successfully overcoming the challenges in industrial arena. The details of the courses offered by department of Dairy Engineering at Under Graduate and Post Graduate levels are given.
UG and PG Courses offered by Department of Dairy Engineering:
Sr. No. | Course Title | Credit | Course Title | Credit | ||
UNDER GRADUATE COURSES | POST GRADUATE COURSES | |||||
1 | Workshop Practice | 2 (1+1) | Dairy and Food Engineering -I | 3+0 | ||
2 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 (2+1) | Heat Transfer | 3+0 | ||
3 | Engineering Drawing | 1 (0+1) | Transport Phenomena | 2+0 | ||
4 | Thermodynamics | 2 (1+1) | Master’s seminar | 1+0 | ||
5 | Heat & Mass Transfer | 3 (2+1) | Design of Process Equipment | 3+0 | ||
6 | Boilers and Steam Generation | 2 (1+1) | Dairy and Food Engineering -II | 3+0 | ||
7 | Basic Electrical Engineering | 3 (2+1) | Bio-thermal Process Engineering | 3+0 | ||
8 | Refrigeration & Air-conditioning | 3 (2+1) | Instrumentation and Process Control | 2+1 | ||
9 | Dairy Engineering | 3 (2+1) | Master’s research work | 20 | ||
10 | Dairy Process Engineering | 3 (2+1) | ||||
11 | Instrumentation and Process Control | 3 (2+1) | ||||
12 | Food Engineering | 3 (2+1) | ||||
13 | Material Strength & Dairy Machine Design | 3 (2+1) | ||||
14 | Dairy Plant Design and Layout | 2(1+1) | ||||
15 | Energy Conservation and Management | 2(1+1) | ||||
Total | 38 (23+15) | 41(20+21) | ||||
These 15 courses constitute around 40 % of the B.Tech.(Dairy Tech) course curriculum, as per 5th Dean Committees Recommendation.
Staff Position:
Designation | Professor |
Associate Professor |
Assistant Professor |
Laboratory Technician |
Laboratory Assistant |
Laboratory Attendant |
ICARs MSHE | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||
Sanctioned | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Filled | 0 | 1 | 3* | 0 | 1 | 0 |
* includes 1 on Study Leave
Laboratory facilities:
The instruments required for practical classes of some of the courses offered by the department occupy significant space and also being generically different haven been housed in 9 laboratories available with the department. Selected state of art instruments and modern equipment are listed below;
Dynamic Vapour Sorption Analyzer Vacuum Evaporator Wet Grinder/ Mixer Hygrometer Fluidized bed dryer Specific Heat Apparatus Bomb Calorimeter Thermocouple Calibration Unit Lab Scale Homogenizer Filtration Unit Texture Profile Analyzer Brook Field Viscometer BOD Incubators Hot Air Oven Water Activity Analyzer Spray dryer Freeze Dryer Infra Red Moisture Analyzer Pouch Packaging Machine Horizontal Batch Sterilizer Digital Viscometer Table top model of spray dryer Instrumentation tutor Vapour Absorption Refrigeration System Temperature Data Logger |
Table top fermenter Separating & Throttling calorimeter Temperature and Humidity controller Table Top Cream separator Table Top Churn Lab scale Ice Cream Freezer Work shop tools Dew Point apparatus Milking Machine Air Compressor Batch Sterilizer Stefan’s apparatus SSHE based milk condensation machine Finned tube heat exchanger Heat pipe Specimen of boilers Specimen of IC engines Specimen of Pumps PHE model Ultra sonic thickness tester Digital Tachometer Surface roughness tester Non-contact thermometer Vacuum Controller Digital Manometer |
Projects undertaken by the department
Sr. No. | Title | Financing Agency |
Budget (Rs. Lakhs) |
Status |
1. | Creation of Infrastructure Facilities for running Degree Course | Min. of Food Proc. Ind, Govt. of India New Delhi | 37.0 + Cost on 8 EDPs1 & 4 RTP’s2 | Completed |
2. | Establishing Sorption kinetics and physical properties of selected fruit based milk shakes | ICAR, New Delhi | 6.0 lakhs | Completed |
3. | nqX/k O;olk;krqu vkfnoklh fodkl izf”k{k.k ¼23 Qsczqokjh rs 8 ekpZ 2001½ | Social Forestry Circle, Akola | 0.8 lakh | Completed |
4. | Entrepreneurship Development Programme on Dairy Processing, 14th Nov 2005 to 31st March 2006, 4 one month Training Programmes | Min. of Food Proc. Ind, Govt. of India, | 4.00 lakh | Completed |
5. | Rheological behavior & modeling of sorption kinetics of Traditional Dairy Products | Rajiv Gandhi Science & Tech. Commission, Govt. of Maharashtra. | 33.00 lakh | Completed |
PG Research of the Department
Sr. No. |
Details | |
01. | Title | Storage studies on the Textural Behavior of Selected Dairy Products |
Scholar | SP Lokhande | |
Advisor | M. Waseem | |
Year | 2013-14 | |
02. | Title | Investigating feasibility of developing self heating container for selected Ready-to-Eat food |
Scholar | RP Datir | |
Advisor | A.V. Dhotre | |
Year | 2014 |
Departmental Staff |
Dr. P.G. Wasnik
Designation | Qualification | Institute |
Associate Professor & Head I/c Associate Dean & Dean Faulty of Dairy Technology |
B.Tech (Agril Engg), 1988 M.Tech.(Agril Process Engg), 1991 Ph. D. (Dairy Engineering), 2015 |
Dr. PDKV, Akola Dr. PDKV, Akola NDRI, Karnal |
Achievements:
Area of Interest /Expertise:
Contact Detail:e_mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Cell phone: +91-9422866519
Er. M. Waseem
Designation | Qualification | Institute |
Assistant Professor |
B.Tech. (Agril Engg), 1984 M.Tech (Dairy & Food Engineering), 1986 |
Dr. PDKV, Akola IIT, Kharagpur |
Career Profile:
Contact Detail:Department of Dairy Engineering, College of Dairy Technology, Warud (Pusad), Distt.- Yavatmal, Maharashtra-445 204, e_mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 07233-247268 (Extn-211)and 248696(Extn-211)
Er A.V. Dhotre
Designation | Qualification | Institute |
Assistant Professor |
B.Tech. (Dairy Tech), 2003 M.Tech (Dairy Engineering), 2006 |
MAFSU, Nagpur AAU-Anand (Gujarat) |
Achievements:
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Contact Detail:
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Er. N. M. Khodwe
Designation | Qualification | Institute |
Assistant Professor |
B.Tech. (Dairy Tech), 2000 M.Tech (Dairy Engineering), 2003 |
Dr. PDKV, Akola NDRI, Karnal, Haryana |
Achievements:
Area of Interest /Expertise:
Contact Detail:
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Mr. Kadeer Shaikh
Designation | Qualification | |
Attendant (Adhoc) |
SSC, 1988. ITI (Electrical Wireman), 1990. MS CIT (Mathematics), 2012. |
Amravati Board BTB, Mumbai |
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Area of Interest /Expertise:
Mr. Rajesh B Rathod
Designation | Qualification | |
Peon | Eight Class, 1988. | Amravati Board |
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publications by the Departmental Staff |
Research Papers | : | 12 |
Scientific Papers | : | 55 |
Popular articles | : | 38 |
Book / Chapters | : | 10 |
Practical Manuals | : | 10 |
Administrative Charges handled by the department staff
University Recommendations from Departmental Research
Most acceptable Santra Burfi can be prepared by blending 10 % fresh Santra Pulp and 90 % Khoa-Sugar mixture. The texture Profile values of hardness, cohesiveness adhesiveness, springiness and gumminess were 1.357 N, 0.277 N, 0.177 mm, and 0.202 N respectively. The initial water activity of sugar burfi at 23.91 % moisture content (DB) ranges between 0.8-0.9 at 25 °C to 40 °C.