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what is the syllabus of dairy technology in JRF? What is the referance books? which are the good collages? What are the job apportunity ?

The syllabus of Dairy Technology in JRF is given below.

Unit I - Principles and processes of food preservation, non-conventional sources, processing of fluid milk, Computerization, and Automatic Process Controls in Milk Processing. HACCP concepts in fluid milk processing. Advances in Centrifugal Separation and Bactofugation. Manufacture of various types of dairy products and changes occurring during manufacture and storage and their defects. Sensory evaluation and judging of milk and milk products, types of packaging materials and their properties, packing forms and operations, problems in food packaging, and recent advances in packaging dairy and food products. Intelligent Food Packaging. Nutritional Labeling of Food Products. Application of Membrane Processing in Milk Processing.

Unit II - Materials and sanitary features of the dairy equipment. Homogenizer - Theory of Homogenization. Triplex pump, Lubrication of the Homogenizer, care, and management of homogenizer, Homogenizer Accessories, and Standards for Homogenizer. Pasteurizer - Pasteurizer construction & Principle Materials used in Construction of Pasteurizers. High-temperature short-time Pasteurizer, care of Pasteurizer, Reaction Kinetics, Sterilizer, Mixing & agitation equipment, principles of evaporation, drying. Atmosphere concentration, Vaccum Pan, Fluidization. Care of Vaccum Pan, Atmospheric Drum Dryer. Spray Dryer principles of dairy plant layout and design, Functional Design, the space requirement of Milk Plant, problem through computers, centralized dispersal of data processing, d-BASE-III, Lotus 1-2-3 to graphics, Fortran.

Unit III - Fluid Mechanics - properties of fluids, Bernoulli's equation and its applications, hydraulic systems Types of Pumps, Sanitary pumps, standards for Centrifugal and positive Rotatory Type of pumps, Selection of pumps. Care and Upkeep of Pumps dimensional analysis, refrigeration, and air conditioning. Artificial Refrigeration, Compression Refrigeration System, Refrigeration Accessories. Calculation of size of Refrigeration Machine Requirements. Heat-transfer and thermodynamics, mechanical separations.

The books for preparation are given below.

1. Dairy Technology by Shrivastava Singh
2. Outlines of Dairy Technology by De Sukumar
3. Modern Dairy Technology by Richard Kenneth Robinson