Science

BIT Mesra offers a 5 year Integrated M.Sc. (Food Technology), with exit option as well as
lateral entry after three years, has been introduced. The courses include training in the area of Food
Composition and Chemistry, Food Biochemistry and Human Nutrition, Food Microbiology, Food Plant
sanitation, Food Analysis and Quality Control, Food Preservation and Processing Technology, Chemical
Engineering unit operations in Food Processing Industries, Food Packaging, Post-Harvest Technology etc. Laboratories in the area of Food Technology include Food Processing Laboratory, Food Microbiology
Laboratory, and Food Analysis Laboratory. The Food Processing Laboratory includes Pulper machine, vegetable dicing machine, Juice Extraction, Homogenizer, Twin Screw Extrusion cooker, Homogenizer, Colloidal Mill, Grinders, Can Body Reformer, Canning Retort, Steam generator, Steam
jacketed cooker, Tray dryer, fluidized B.Ed dryer, Vacuum bottle Filling machine, Form Fill and Seal
packaging etc. Food Microbiology lab with Autoclave, Laminar flow clean air workstation, BOD
incubator has the expertise of microbiological tests of water and food. The Food Analysis and quality
Control facilities included Flame photometer, HPLC, Digital colorimeter, NIR Spectral Analyzer, UV-VIS
Spectrophotometer etc. The other required equipment are available in Central Instrumentation
Facility are also available. The facilities are being augmented with capability for determination of
protein by Kjeldahl method, dietary and crude fibre determination, Fat determination, Food Texture
Analysis, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, Spray drying, etc.