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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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    ELECTRICAL ENERGY ANALYSIS OF A COMMERCIAL DAIRY PLANT
    (AAU, Anand, 2014) CHAUDHARY, DINESHBHAI ADABHAI; Dr. J. B.Upadhyay
    The present global scenario of energy crisis has forced dairy industry to become more conscious. With liberalization of industrial polices, the dairy industry is facing challenges both in terms of quality and cost competitiveness and striving to find out the ways and means to reduce resource consumption and improve the plant performance. Engineering services in dairy plants are considered as the area where simple plant optimization measures can lead to substantial and almost immediate savings. In commercial dairy plant, Electrical energy is the main energy utilized for dairy processing. Thus, it becomes important to take every conceivable step to reduce energy losses and careful survey of all dairy processing operation and equipments. Energy and cost effective processes are vital to sustain any industry in today’s competitive market.