STUDIES ON ENERGY REQUIREMENTS IN MANUFACTURE OF KUNDA – A HEAT DESICCATED INDIAN MILK PRODUCT

摘要

Kunda is an Indian traditional heat desiccated dairy product popular innKarnataka province of India. Manufacture of Kunda is a time consuming andnenergy intensive process involving continuous desiccation of milk along withnsugar and the process involves consumption of large quantities of steam fornevaporation of water. Since energy conservation in dairies is a priority area,na technology was developed to manufacture Kunda with less energy require-nment utilizing caramelized sugar. Caramelized sugar was used during thenprocess at various levels and it was observed that browning developed fasternwith increasing level of caramelized sugar. Use of 40% level of caramelizednsugar reduced the total process time and also produced good quality Kunda.nThe total net energy consumption per kg Kunda was 8262.61 kJ and thisnenergy consumption was brought down by 26.91% utilizing caramelized sugarnat 40% level of sugar.