Students will aquire a technical and scientific basis about plants and machinery for agro-food industry taking into account the "chain approach" with an engineer point of view involving safety aspects too.
given digitalized by the teacher by mean of Moodle system
Learning Objectives
Knolewdge acquired: Students will aquire a technical and scientific basis about plants and machinery for agro-food industry
Competence acquired (at the end of the course): The course provides the basic instruments of physics and mechanics applied to plants and machinery for agroindustry processing
Skills acquired (at the end of the course): The aim is to enable the student to move by himself into the practical approach with an engineer point of view.
Prerequisites
Courses recommmended: Mathematics and Physics
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6
Total hours of the course
(including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc.): 150:
As a rule, the course will consist of: classroom lectures with the help of slides on the Moodle computer platform;
numerical exercises in the classroom and self-assessment tests;
an external exercise to verify what theoretically illustrated in class;
Some seminars on specific supply chains held by external staff in the presence of the teacher.
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 100
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 28
Contact hours for: Laboratory (hours):
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 10
Seminars (hours): 10
Stages:
Intermediate examinations: 2
Further information
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab:
recommended
Teaching tools:
Slides
Type of Assessment
self evaluation text during the course, final oral examination: it consists of simple exercises in physics and mechanics applied to the machines: discussion on an agri-food supply chain: some questions about the whole program to verify the achievement of the planned Dublin indicators.
Course program
callbacks of the essential slight knowledge of mathematics, statistics and physics
Fundamental of metrology and SI practical applications
Transmission of the motion, concept of machine and performance
Bases of thermotechnical, drying and conditioning
Callbacks of hydraulics and pumps
Operation of the main machines
Examples of processing lines
Elements of digital electronics, Boolean algebra
Automation of the lines
Concept of production chain and criteria for the selection of machines
Applications of the electromagnetic waves in the agricultural and food- industry