Agricultural Engineering: A Practical Approach

Contents: 1. Determination of size and shape of the agricultural materials. 2. Determination of bulk density of the agricultural materials. 3. Determination of tapped bulk density and flowability of the food powder. 4. Determination of porosity of the biological materials. 5. Determination of specific gravity of the agricultural materials by pycnometer method. 6. Determination of volume of the agricultural materials. 7. Determination of water solubility and absorption index of the food materials. 8. Determination of angle of repose of biological materials. 9. Determination of thermal conductivity of the agricultural materials by probe method. 10. Determination of specific heat of the agricultural materials by differential scanning calorimetry method. 11. Estimation of calorific value of the agricultural materials by bomb clorimeter. 12. Determination of texture profile of the different food materials. 13. Determination of moisture content of food materials by hot-air oven method. 14. Determination of moisture content of food grains by digital moisture meter. 15. Determination of moisture content of biological materials by distillation method. 16. Numerical problems on grain moisture content and equilibrium moisture content. 17. Determination of drying rate of agricultural products. 18. Study of drying characteristics of grains and evolution of lab model thin layer dryer. 19. Study of drying characteristics of the grains by fluidized bed drying. 20. Study on performance evaluation of seed cleaner cum grader. 21. Performance evaluation of inclined belt separator. 22. Performance evaluation of specific gravity separator. 23. Performance evaluation of spiral separator. 24. Performance evaluation of groundnut decorticator. 25. Performance evaluation of the maize sheller. 26. Performance evaluation of paddy parboiling unit. 27. Study of shelling efficiency of the rubber roll paddy dehuske. 28. Design of bag storage system. 29. Design of shallow and deep bins. 30. Design of screw conveying system. 31. Design of bucket elevator. 32. Design of belt conveying system. 33. Determination of conveying efficiency of screw conveyor. 34. Determination of conveying efficiency of bucket elevator. 35. Cost of operation of processing machineries. 36. Study of greenhouse construction: free standing gable and quonset type greenhouses. 37. Design of greenhouse heating system. 38. Design of greenhouse cooling system. 39. Study of chain survey tools and equipment. 40. Measurement of horizontal distance using metric chain. 41. Determination of area of the field by triangulation method of chain survey. 42. Determination of area of the given field by cross-staff survey. 43. Computation of area of irregular shape of the field. 44. Studies on prismatic compass and angular measurement. 45. Determination of area of the open field by radiation method of compass survey. 46. Determination of area of given field and included angle of the closed polygon by compass survey. 47. Determination of area of the field by radiation method of plane table survey. 48. Determination of area of the field by intersection method of plane table survey. 49. Determination of area of the field by traversing method of plane table survey. 50. Studies on leveling instruments and simple levelling. 51. Determination of the elevation of different points with dumpy level. 52. Profile levelling determination of reduced levels and plotting of the road profile. 53. Preparation of contour map by direct method. 54. Determination of contours by grid method. 55. Determination of contours by cross-section method. 56. Determination of contours by radial lines method. 57. Measurement of irrigation water by volumetric method. 58. Measurement of irrigation water by area-velocity method. 59. Measurement of irrigation water by using weirs. 60. Measurement of irrigation water by using orifice. 61. Measurement of irrigation water by parshall flume. 62. Measurement of irrigation water flowing through a pipe. …