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Course, academic year 2026/2027
  
   
Calculation methods and process modelling in food technology - M321004
Title: Výpočetní metody a modelování v oboru
Guaranteed by: Department of Carbohydrates and Cereals (321)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2026 to 2026
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Sluková Marcela doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : N321016
Examination dates   Schedule   
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course will focus on calculations and modeling of relationships and parameters used in food technologies. Unit operations involved in food production will be discussed in detail. Special variables will be addressed and their interrelationships, which are used and required in practice, will be proposed. The course will also cover the principles of process control and the use of control systems in food production.
Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Course completion requirements -

Preparation of an individual project (case study) and successful completion of an examination test.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Literature - Czech

Povinná:

  • KADLEC P., MELZOCH K., VOLDŘICH M.. Přehled tradičních potravinářských výrob, technologie potravin. Ostrava: Key Publishing, 2012, s. ISBN 978-80-7418-145-0.

Doporučená:

  • KADLEC P., MELZOCH K., VOLDŘICH M. A KOLEKTIV.. Procesy a zařízení potravinářských a biotechnologických výrob. Ostrava: KEY Publishing, 2012, s. ISBN 978-80-7418-086-6..
  • KADLEC K., KMÍNEK M., KADLEC P. A KOLEKTIV. Měření a řízení v potravinářských a biotechnologických výrobách. Ostrava: KEY Publishing, 2017, s. ISBN 978-80-7418-232-7.
  • JAHODA M., SCHREIBER I. A KOLEKTIV. Chemické inženýrství II. Praha: VŠCHT Praha, 2025, s. ISBN 978-80-7592-196-3.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Teaching methods -

Lectures, exercises, consultations.

Study materials are available on e-learning.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Requirements to the exam -

Obtaining credit for active participation in the exercises. Completion of the written parts.

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Syllabus -

1. Units and quantities in physics and technology, their mutual relationships.

2. Physical and physicochemical properties of food and food raw materials.

3. Disintegration processes – methods of grinding cereals and other plant raw materials.

4. Granulation, granulation spectra, particle distribution.

5. Properties of bulk materials, screening, handling, and transport.

6. Mass balance.

7. Examples of balancing in selected food processing plants.

8. Product yield and its expression in selected food processing plants.

9. Balance of raw material and product stocks, principles of stock management.

10. Drying, storage, air humidity diagram.

11. Thermal processes, steam and changes in its state and their calculations.

12. Enthalpy balances in industry technologies.

13. Heat sharing – examples in selected processes.

14. Crystallization, its kinetics, nucleation.

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Learning resources -

e-learning, subject Calculation Methods and Process Modelling in Food Technology

https://e-learning.vscht.cz/

Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
Learning outcomes -

Knowledge of special units used in food technology and mutual conversions between empirical

units and basic SI units. Properties of food and food raw materials. Balance calculations in

food processing plants, warehouse balances and warehouse management. Enthalpy balance and heat sharing processes,

drying of food materials. Disintegration processes, sieving and granulation spectra. Modeling of processes on

specific cases.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Entry requirements -

Food Technology; Advanced Processes in Food Technology and Biotechnology; Chemical Engineering I (A)

Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Registration requirements - Czech

Fyzikální chemie

Matematika

Chemické inženýrství

Vybrané procesy potravinářských a biochemických výrob

Last update: Sluková Marcela (24.01.2026)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.5 14
Práce na individuálním projektu 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1 28
Účast na seminářích 1 28
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VŠCHT Praha