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GATE Dairy and Food Engineering: Unit Operations in Dairy and Food Engineering – Previous Year Questions

10 GATE previous year questions on Unit Operations in Dairy and Food Engineering (Dairy and Food Engineering, Agricultural Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 AG Q44 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Potato water activity is .942. Using Raoult’s law, which solution is most efficient for osmotic dehydration? Molar masses: sucrose342 g/mol, NaCl58.5…
  2. GATE 2023 AG Q27 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – In a cream separator, fat-globule diameter halves and centrifuge speed triples. How does terminal separation velocity change?
  3. GATE 2023 AG Q34 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A basket centrifuge rotates1000 rpm. Lighter-liquid surface and interface radii are.1025,.105 m. Light/heavy densities are920,1015 kg/m³. Find radial…
  4. GATE 2023 AG Q35 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Milk in a homogenizer drops from 250 to 10 bar. Density is 1030 kg/m³. Neglect losses and upstream kinetic energy. Find valve exit speed in m/s, to…
  5. GATE 2023 AG Q44 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Juice solids concentration is .2 kg per m³ filtrate. Filtration of 12.49 m³ juice deposits.02 m cake of porosity.32. Solids collected are2.5 kg in 180…
  6. GATE 2023 AG Q47 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Percentage absolute humidity equals percentage relative humidity when which conditions hold? Select all that apply.
  7. GATE 2024 AG Q45 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Match P Bingham plastic, Q Dilatant, R Pseudoplastic, S Newtonian with 1 Viscosity increases with shear rate,2 Finite yield stress,3 Shear rate…
  8. GATE 2025 AG Q19 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – What is the refrigerant condition at the compressor exit in a vapor-compression refrigeration system?
  9. GATE 2025 AG Q42 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Match 1 Sensible cooling,2 Cooling and dehumidification,3 Chemical dehumidification,4 Heating and humidification with P Dry-bulb increases/dew-point…
  10. GATE 2025 AG Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Apple juice of viscosity 1.6 cP is filtered at constant pressure through 2 m². Solids concentration per filtrate volume is .04 g/mL, pressure drop…