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Energy audit of frozen vegetable and fruit processing industry

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Title Energy audit of frozen vegetable and fruit processing industry
 
Creator Sharma, Anil
 
Contributor Khandelwal, B.M.
 
Subject biological phenomena, plant oils, vegetables, peas, productivity, confectionery, mechanization, diseases, planting, fruits
POST HARVEST PROCESS AND FOOD ENGINEERING
 
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The present global scenario of energy crisis has frozen vegetable fruit processing industry to become more energy conscious. With liberalisation of industrial policy, the food processing industry is facing challenges both in terms of quality and plant performance. As operations performed in food processing plants especially in fruit and vegetable processing line are quite energy intensive, the check on energy usage is in priority concern. Engineering services in food plants is considered as the area where simple plant optimization measures can lead to substantial and almost immediate savings. In frozen vegetable and fruit processing line, electricity was the main energy utilized for operation of machineries, such as prime movers and lighting while the thermal energy was used for blanching of sweet corn and green pea.
For any industry, a perfect energy audit being first step to identify and suggest the area of energy wastages and set realistic goals for achievable savings. During the study, preliminary energy audit was done by carrying out visits to the plant and collection of the past bills available with the plant. The detailed energy audit was carried out in frozen vegetable and fruit processing line in which the energy consumed by the unit processes were determined and the energy consuming devices were tested for their performance. The total energy consumed in the sweet corn line was 6072.3 kWh per day where as energy consumed by the green pea line was 6041.7 kWh per day, respectively, inclusive of all unit operations.


The illuminance level of some of the sections were determined and found to be good during day time while during night the ILER in all the sections found to be poor and needed immediate action.

The relationships were developed with electricity, diesel consumption and the product produced. The possible suggestions for conserving energy were made and the reduction in energy consumption would be obtained if the suggestions are accepted and implemented.
 
Date 2016-06-28T11:27:10Z
2016-06-28T11:27:10Z
2015
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/68104
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher JNKVV