| Area of specialization |
Agrl. Process Engineering |
| Area of interest |
Agrl. Process Engineering, Post harvest machineries, value addition of tuber crops for food products, starch based films and
composites, texture and rheology of tropical tubers and starches, extrusion technology, thermoplastic starches for biodegradable
articles |
| Number of institute projects completed |
18 |
| Number of Institute projects being handled |
2 |
| Number of externally funded projects completed |
5 |
| Number of externally funded projects being handled |
2 |
| 1 |
Feed granulator for cassava based animal feed |
| 2 |
Multipurpose mobile starch extraction plant for tuber crops |
| 3 |
Cassava rasper (900-1000 kg/h) capacity for the extraction of starch |
| 4 |
Industrial cassava rasper (2 t/h) capacity for the extraction of starch |
| 5 |
Formulations standardized for the production of ten fried snack foods using cassava based composite flours |
| 6 |
Formulations standardized for the production of two fried snack foods using raw cassava mash |
| 7 |
Dual mechanism first order kinetic models were developed to understand the thermal softening behavior of cassava
tubers |
| 8 |
Standardized different pretreatments for the frozen storage of cassava tubers |
| 9 |
Quick cooking dehydrated cassava tubers (2-3 min) of comparable texture as that of the fresh cooked tubers were
developed |
| 10 |
Hydrocyclone system to reduce water consumption in cassava starch industries |
| 11 |
Kinetic models on the cooking quality of sweet potato tubers |
| 12 |
Rheological models on the gelling behavior of Amorphophallus starch |
| 13 |
Quick cooking dehydrated cassava/Amorphophallus tubers (2-3 min) of comparable texture as that of the fresh
cooked tubers were developed |
| 14 |
Cassava/Sweet potato starch based biodegradable films were developed |
| 15 |
Modified cassava starch based biodegradable films developed |
| 16 |
Cassava starch- nano clay composite based film developed |
