About the Book
Each and every crop has to pass through a variety of post harvest operations like cleaning, grading, separation, drying, storage, milling, packaging, transport and marketing to make it suitable for the consumption. Hence, the importance of post harvest engineering operation is increasing day by day.

Features :
 An attempt has been made in this manual to describe and discuss the methodology and practices to be followed for post harvest processing of cereals, pulses and oilseeds. Sufficient number of figures, diagrams,
charts, line sketches and tables are incorporated in a systematic manner so as to have the better understanding of the system and procedures.

 All the practicals are very concise and presented in the standard format, targeting the objectives and describing methodology in a clear and comprehensive manner. Most of the experiments are simple enough to be conducted and demonstrated with relevant apparatus. Relevant terminologies and theories have also been explained
appropriately.

 The manual is intended to fulfil the requirements of undergraduate students of Agricultural Engineering and Technology in the discipline of Processing and Food Engineering as per the course curriculum recommended by the Fifth Deans’ Committee for U.G. Programme of ICAR, New Delhi.

 Study of different types of cleaning/grading equipments
 Performance evaluation of laboratory scale air screen grain cleaner
 Study and performance evaluation of indented cylinder separator
 Study of different types of size reduction equipments and performance evaluation
 Determination of fineness modulus and average particle size
 Study on different types of conveying and elevating equipments
 Study of different types of food mixers
 Performance evaluation of mixer
 Measurement of the moisture content of an agricultural product
 Determination of different drying characteristics and drying constant for the given product during drying
 Determination of equilibrium moisture content (EMC) of food grains
 Study on working of different types of mechanical dryers
 Study of different equipments in rice mills and performance evaluation
 Study of dhal mill and performance evaluation
 Study of different equipments in oil mills and performance evaluation
 Study of milling process of cereal crops
 Study of milling process of pulse crops
 Study of milling process of oilseed crops
 Visit of grain processing industry