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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Calculation Methods and Process Modelling - 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 2020 to 2025
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: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Sluková Marcela doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : N321016
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course focuses on basic technological calculations and modelling principles in food industry practice. Individual lessons demonstrate examples of calculations that graduates may encounter in industrial practice. These include balancing in basic types of food processing operations, i.e., mass flow balances and basic energy balances, calculations related to heat and mass transfer, and examples of mathematical modelling of selected processes and basics in control engineering of selected types of process equipment. The course is designed so that the individual calculation examples are as close as possible to the practical calculation tasks that graduates may encounter in their positions as technologists, production managers, or specialists in the field of development and research in food processing plants of various types.
Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Úspěšné absolvování písemné zkoušky/zápočtového testu/zkouškového testu.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
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.
  • HASAL P., SCHREIBER I., ŠNITA D. A KOLEKTIV.. Chemické inženýrství I. 2 vydání.. Praha: VŠCHT Praha, 2007, s. ISBN 978-80-7080-002-7.

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 (23.01.2026)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Získání zápočtu za aktivní účast na cvičeních. Absolvování písemné části.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Basic quantities and units.

2. Mass balance I – refinery-type operation, measurement and efficiency calculations.

3. Mass balance II – synthetic and transformation operations, measurement and efficiency calculations.

4. Heat and mass transfer, basic relations, enthalpy balances, heat exchangers.

5. Basic relations and parameters of rheological behavior of liquids.

6. Automation in food technology I – system, control and regulation, controller settings, PLC.

7. Automation in food technology II – mathematical modelling, simulation, process optimization, predictive control, digitization.

8. Humidity, drying, air conditioning, and cooling – controlled storage processes for raw materials and products.

9. Industrial crystallization, nucleation, particle size distribution.

10. Practical examples I – isolation and refinement of important substances (carbohydrates).

11. Practical examples II – isolation and refinement of important substances (lipids, proteins).

12. Practical examples III – disintegration of solids, granulation modification.

13. Practical examples IV – cooking, frying, baking, extrusion.

14. Alternative date.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
Learning resources - Czech

e-learning, předmět Výpočetní metody a modelování v oboru

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

Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

understand and work with technological calculations used in food production;

perform mass and energy balances for various types of food-processing operations;

apply the principles of heat and mass transfer to solve practical technological tasks;

use mathematical modelling to describe and analyze selected food processes;

design and evaluate computational procedures for optimizing and controlling technological operations.

Last update: Sluková Marcela (23.01.2026)
Registration requirements - Czech

Fyzikální chemie

Matematika

Chemické inženýrství

Vybrané procesy potravinářských a biochemických výrob

Last update: Sluková Marcela (26.01.2018)
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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