Professional Information
Area of specialization Agrl. Process Engineering
Area of interest Agrl. Process Engineering, Post harvest machineries, value addition of tuber crops for food products, starch based films and composites, texture and rheology of tropical tubers and starches, extrusion technology, thermoplastic starches for biodegradable articles
Number of institute projects completed 18
Number of Institute projects being handled 2
Number of externally funded projects completed 5
Number of externally funded projects being handled 2
Technologies developed
1 Feed granulator for cassava based animal feed
2 Multipurpose mobile starch extraction plant for tuber crops
3 Cassava rasper (900-1000 kg/h) capacity for the extraction of starch
4 Industrial cassava rasper (2 t/h) capacity for the extraction of starch
5 Formulations standardized for the production of ten fried snack foods using cassava based composite flours
6 Formulations standardized for the production of two fried snack foods using raw cassava mash
7 Dual mechanism first order kinetic models were developed to understand the thermal softening behavior of cassava tubers
8 Standardized different pretreatments for the frozen storage of cassava tubers
9 Quick cooking dehydrated cassava tubers (2-3 min) of comparable texture as that of the fresh cooked tubers were developed
10 Hydrocyclone system to reduce water consumption in cassava starch industries
11 Kinetic models on the cooking quality of sweet potato tubers
12 Rheological models on the gelling behavior of Amorphophallus starch
13 Quick cooking dehydrated cassava/Amorphophallus tubers (2-3 min) of comparable texture as that of the fresh cooked tubers were developed
14 Cassava/Sweet potato starch based biodegradable films were developed
15 Modified cassava starch based biodegradable films developed
16 Cassava starch- nano clay composite based film developed