Course detail
Food Technology and Engineering
FCH-MC_TIPAcad. year: 2025/2026
This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of selected classical, modern and special food technologies, such as the production of meat products, tea, coffee, fats, starch syrups, sweeteners and others.
During the course, students will become familiar with the area of food product knowledge and technological aspects of individual food products, from basic legislative requirements, characteristics of raw materials and products, to analysis of chemical, physical and biochemical processes. Considerable space is also allocated to the development of chemical-engineering knowledge, which students can further use in practice in the designing of technological units and the operation of industrial equipment.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Sufficient knowledge about fundamentals of food technology, chemical engineering, physical chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The exam will be in written form, in total 5 questions, 20 points each. The limit to pass an exam is 50 points (50 %). In the case of unclear evaluation teacher can apply oral examination.
The lectures are not compulsory, but recommended.
Aims
The goal of this course is the theoretical preparation of students for future practice in the food processing industry. The course follows on the course „Basics of Food Technologies“, which is taught in the bachelor's degree at FCH BUT. Students will deepen the knowledge acquired so far in the field of production technology of basic food commodities, they will gain new knowledge in the field of other related and special technologies, incl. use of the most modern approaches in food production (e.g. encapsulation, immobilization, etc.). All this in connection with the relevant legislative requirements.
Acquisition of knowledge about producing technology of wide spectrum of food types
Deepen of knowledge about processes influencing sensory, nutritious and hygienic food parameters
Acquisition of knowledge about new trends in food technologies
Acquisition of knowledge about approving processes of food producing areas
Acquisition of knowledge about quality control during food production
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Kadlec, P, Melzoch K., Voldřich M., a kol.: Technologie potravin - Procesy a zařízení v potravinářství a biotechnologiích. Key Publishing s.r.o., Ostrava, 2013. (CS)
Kadlec, P, Melzoch K., Voldřich M., a kol.: Technologie potravin – Přehled tradičních potravinářských výrob. Key Publishing s.r.o., Ostrava, 2012. (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPCP_PCHBT Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to food production
Week 2.-3: Production of meat products and processing of slaughter by-products. Additives used in meat production.
Week 4: Production of non-chocolate confectionery – confectionery with an amorphous and crystalline structure
Week 5: Production of pasta and long-lasting baked goods
Week 6: Production of coffee (classic, instant, decaffeinated) and coffee products
Week 7: Tea production
Week 8: Production of starch syrups and alternative sweeteners
Week 9: Fractionation and transesterification of fats
Week 10: Hydrogenation of fats and production of edible fats
Week 11: Butter production
Week 12: Production of dried and concentrated dairy products, production of frozen creams
Week 13: Encapsulation and immobilization of natural substances and additives in the food industry