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AREN 622: Solar Thermal Engineering

This course is designed to give students an understanding of the analysis and design of solar energy collection systems and how to model thermal energy storage devices. The use of solar energy for drying of agricultural produce will be discussed. The course...

AREN 623: Grain Storage Systems

This course deals with the design, selection, siting, operation and management of grain storage systems. The course will therefore provide a detailed interrogation of all aspects of an efficient grain storage system operation. There will also be the...

AREN 624: Refrigeration Design And Cold Chain Management

This course deals with the practical design and operations of cold chain systems. The students will therefore be taken through the various steps and conditions necessary for the design of a cold chain system and how to manage commodity specific systems....

AREN 625: Principles of Irrigation Engineering

This course is intended to introduce students to the importance of irrigation and elements of irrigation systems. It will enable students have full grasp of basic soil-water relationships and soil water measurement. Additionally the course will deal with...

AREN 628: Advanced Commodity Drying

This course aims to equip students with the science required to efficiently conduct a commodity specific drying process. The student will therefore examine the various reasons for agricultural commodity drying and how to vary process parameters to achieve...

AREN 630: Seminar II

For year 2, each student will make a presentation soon after the Year 1 examinations on his/her Thesis Research Proposal and also present a progress report midway into the second semester. These will be assessed for 3 credits.

AREN 632: Storage and Preservation of Perishable Agricultural Commodities

This course introduces students to the processes and techniques used for the preservation of perishable agricultural commodities. The ability to preserve perishable agricultural commodity is significantly affected by both pre and post-harvest activities on...

SOIL 605: Soil Physics

This course is intended to introduce students to the composition of soils, interaction of soil and water, soil water potentials, potential diagrams and soil water retention. Also to be introduced will be the principles of water movement in soil, Darcy’s...

SOIL 606: Soil-Plant-Water Relationship

In the course students are introduced to systems approach to the study of Soil-Plant-Water-Atmosphere continuum (SPAC). Additionally, it will enhance the ability of students to appreciate the processes of plant and development, transport laws, gas and...

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