POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE & RESEARCH INSTITUTE

TAMILNADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

COIMBATORE

Infrastructure & Laboratories

1.     Food Processing Pilot Plant

The department is equipped with a food processing pilot plant consists of  a state of the art  food process equipments for the production of fruit and vegetable products like jam, jelly, squash, ready to serve beverages, tomato products, pickles instant foods, masala powders.

The following equipments are available in the food processing pilot plant; Steam boiler, Fruit washer, Vegetable cutter, Fruit pulper, Steam jacketed kettle with scraper, Bottle sterilizer, Bottle filling, capping and sealing machines, Form fill and sealing machine, Microwave oven, Retort pouch sterilizer, Spices roaster, Ribbon blender, Sugarcane crusher, Bottling washing and rinsing units, Pulse milling units with cyclone separator, Canning machineries, Deep freezer and Cold room.

 The pilot plant is utilized for teaching, research and outreach mission of the Post Harvest Technology Centre. In addition the Pilot plant facilities are utilized by the entrepreneurs as a Food Processing Incubator for their commercial production.

2.  Bakery Unit

 The pilot scale bakery unit is established in the department with the modern equipments viz., Rotary oven, Country ovens, Dough kneader, Planetary mixer, Bread moulder, Sheeter and Slicer, with a production capacity of 6,000 bread per  day.