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Course Detail

Course Name Analytical Instrumentation
Course Code 25FSN312
Semester 6
Credits 2
Campus

Syllabus

Unit I

Introduction to Food Analysis 5hrs.

Need for food analysis, need for Instrumentation in Food Analysis, Criteria for Selecting a Technique, Instrumental Techniques in Food Analysis, Transition of food analysis.

Unit II

Chromatographic Techniques 7hrs.

Gas chromatography, Liquid chromatography, Thin Layer Chromatography, High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography – Principles and applications

Unit III

Hyphenated Techniques 6hrs.

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) – – Principles and applications- Principles and applications.

Unit IV

Spectroscopic Techniques 6hrs.

Visible Spectroscopy, Atomic-Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS), Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emmission Spectrophotometry (ICP- OES/MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) –Principles and applications.

Unit V

Thermal Methods of Analysis 6hrs.

Thermogravimetry, Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) – principles and applications

Activity

  1. Visit to NABL accredited

Text books:

  1. Manual in Instrumentation in Food Analysis, IGNOU University
  2. Handbook of Analytical Instruments, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Education – Europe, ISBN: 9780070604605, R.S. Khandpur, 2015.

Objectives and Outcomes

Pre requisite: Basic knowledge on instruments used in food analysis

Course Objectives:

  1. To create awareness on different analytical techniques used in food analysis
  2. To give an understanding on the principles and applications of various analytical instruments used in food

Course Outcomes:

CO1: Familiarized to various instrumental techniques in food analysis

CO2: Understand the principles and applications of chromatographic methods CO3: Familiarize with hyphenated techniques in chromatography

CO4: Gain knowledge in spectroscopic methods used in food analysis CO5: Understand the principles and applications behind thermal analysis

CO-PO Mappings

 

PO1

PO2

PO3

PO4

PO5

PO6

PO7

PSO1

PSO2

PSO3

PSO4

CO1

2

1

1

3

CO2

2

1

1

3

CO3

2

1

1

3

CO4

2

1

1

3

CO5

2

1

1

3

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