GSLC Planning and Plant Design

1. Please make a group for designing a food plant/food factory (jam, bread, yoghurt, etc.)
2. Write a brief and concise description of your food factory (raw materials, the unit operations
involved, prices for products and raw materials, and all the details that you could prepare)
3. Calculate an estimation of the gross profit margin of your food plant.
4. Each team representative please send an email to me (dave.wtm@gmail.com) regarding the
answer of this GLSC, Thursday March 16th 2017. Thank you.

GSLC Experimental Design

In this link below, please find a file consisting of the measurement data of green beans, corns, and
soya beans (unit: centimeter)
a. Sort the data of green beans from smallest to largest by going to the Data tab, press the
[A-Z] button
b. Make a classification of:
0-0.10 cm
0.11-0.20 cm
0.21-0.30 cm
Etc. until
1.11-1.20 cm.

c. Count manually the frequency of beans having length of 0.11-0.20 cm, 0.21-0.30 cm, etc.
d. Repeat procedure a, b, c for corns and soya beans.
e. Make a histogram out of those data
f. Could you analyze those data (maybe just qualitatively from the histogram you that have
constructed), are those beans significantly different or not?
g. Use Minitab to obtain the means, median, mode, standard deviation etc. by pressing Stat
Basic Statistics Descriptive Statistics. Report those parameters.
h. For Thursday March 16th 2017. Thank you
GSLC Unit Operations
1. In a furnace, carbon C is burned/combusted, and 95% of C is converted to CO2 and the rest is to
be CO.
a. Sketch a diagram that describes this problem
b. Basis: 1 kg C, and the combustion reaction is conducted under ideal conditions. Perform
mass balance analysis, and then predict the mass of gases appearing in the exhaust gases
leaving the furnace.
2. Please examine a process below:
A membrane separation system is used to concentrate total solids (TS) of a liquid food from 10%
(stream F) to 30% (stream P).
The concentration is accomplished in two stages with the 1st stage resulting in the release of a low-
total-solids liquid stream (stream W). The second stage separates the final concentration product
(stream P) from a low-total-solids stream (that is returned to the first stage (stream R, recycle).
Determine the magnitude of the recycle stream when the recycle contains 2% TS, the waste stream
contains 0.5% TS, and the stream between stages 1 and 2 contains 25% TS. The process should
produce 100 kg/min of 30% TS.
GSLC Principles of Food Engineering
1. A pipe (stainless steel, diameter 2) is being used to pump apple juice into a tank (3 m high,
1 m diameter). Density of apple juice is assumed 1040 kg m-3. The viscosity of apple juice
could be found at Table A.2.4, Singh and Heldman 5th ed.
a. Sketch a diagram that describes this problem
b. What would be the maximum velocity to maintain a laminar flow of this apple juice?
c. What would be the minimum velocity to create a turbulent flow of this apple juice flow?
d. What would be the time needed to fill 80% of the tank, under laminar flow?
e. What would be the time needed to fill 80% of the tank, under turbulent flow?

2. Calculate the viscosity of a fluid that would allow a pressure drop of 35 kPa over a 5 m length
of 0.75 stainless steel sanitary pipe if the fluid is flowing at 0.12 m3 h-1 and has a density of
1010 kg m-3 . Assume laminar flow.